Imaginary Empires : Women Writers and Alternative Futures in Early US Literature /

"In Imaginary Empires, Maria O'Malley examines early American texts published between 1767 and 1867 whose narratives represent women's engagement in the formation of empire. Her analysis unearths a variety of responses to contact, exchange, and cohabitation in the early United States,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Malley, Maria, 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2023]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women in literature.
Alternative histories (Fiction), American > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > 19th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > 18th century > History and criticism.
United States > In literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The "fantasy" of a woman in charge in the female American
  • Talking sex and revolution in Saint-Domingue in Sansay's Secret history
  • The militarization of home in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie
  • The limits of the imaginary in the reconstructed US in Lydia Maria Child's Romance of the republic
  • Massachusetts in the American imagination in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl.

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