Uncommon Women
Laffrado, Laura.
Uncommon Women Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing / [electronic resource] : Laura Laffrado. - Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2009. - 1 online resource (viii, 187 p. ) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-180) and index.
"Without any resort to Amazonian conventions" : women, writing, representation -- "A more masculine courage" : women's voice and the nineteenth-century publication of Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal -- "Everything by turns and nothing long" : configurations of female selfhood in Fanny Fern's early periodical writing -- "How could you leave me alone when the room was full of men!" : gender and self-representation in Louisa May Alcott's Hospital sketches -- "I am other than my appearance indicates" : sex-gender representation in women's nineteenth-century Civil War reminiscences -- "I found it hard to preserve my self-control" : race, women, representation.
9780814271605 081427160X
Feminism and literature--History--United States--19th century.
Women and literature--History--United States--19th century.
Sex role in literature.
Women, White, in literature.
Women in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS152 / .L34 2009
810.9/9287
Uncommon Women Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing / [electronic resource] : Laura Laffrado. - Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2009. - 1 online resource (viii, 187 p. ) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-180) and index.
"Without any resort to Amazonian conventions" : women, writing, representation -- "A more masculine courage" : women's voice and the nineteenth-century publication of Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal -- "Everything by turns and nothing long" : configurations of female selfhood in Fanny Fern's early periodical writing -- "How could you leave me alone when the room was full of men!" : gender and self-representation in Louisa May Alcott's Hospital sketches -- "I am other than my appearance indicates" : sex-gender representation in women's nineteenth-century Civil War reminiscences -- "I found it hard to preserve my self-control" : race, women, representation.
9780814271605 081427160X
Feminism and literature--History--United States--19th century.
Women and literature--History--United States--19th century.
Sex role in literature.
Women, White, in literature.
Women in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS152 / .L34 2009
810.9/9287