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The Frontiers of Women's Writing : Women's Narratives and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Georgi-Findlay, Brigitte
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1996.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: American literature, westward expansion, and imperial meaning-making
  • pt. 1. Surveyors of the terrain, 1830-1860: 1. Traveling and settling on the prairies
  • 2. Women on the overland trails
  • pt. 2. Army women, tourists, and mythmakers, 1860-1890: 3. Women and the rhetoric of Indian war
  • 4. Touring and mapping the West
  • pt. 3. Missionaries, reformers, and new women, 1890-1930: 5. The West as a female mission?: white women and the transformation of the American Indian.