1st Edition
Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road American Mobilities
Acknowledgments Introduction: American Mobilities 1: "What hath befallen me": Sites of Contestation in Sarah Beavis’s Two Narratives of Her Adventures on the Mississippi River 2: "With the Wind Rocking the Wagon": Women’s Narratives of the Way West 3: The Politics of Mobility: Self and Nation In-(Between) Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes 4: "A Higher Call": Mobility, Spirituality, and Social Uplift in the Narratives of Maria Stewart and Jarena Lee 5: Circulations of Body and Word: Women’s Slave Narratives 6: Domesticating the Road in the Wide World of Antebellum Women’s Novels 7: Touristic Writing by Antebellum Women Sightseers 8: Jane Cazneau and Margaret Fuller: The Politics of Mobility—Manifest Destiny and Revolution Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Susan Roberson is Professor of English at Texas A & M University--Kingsville. She is the author of Emerson in His Sermons: A Man-Made Self (1995) and the editor of Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation (1998) and of Defining Travel: Diverse Visions (2001).
"Roberson's project is ambitious in its range of women's texts studied as well as in its aggregation of theoretical insights... Roberson's archival work does a service bringing forward a substantial set of texts that are not well known." - Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
