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Routledge
236 Pages
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Routledge
240 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1999. Although contemporary feminist criticism has mainly focused upon American women playwrights of the twentieth century-women, there is evidence that a feminist tradition rooted deep in the nationalistic and democratic impulses of the American nation existed more than a hundred years before these women started writing. It may come as a surprise to some readers that a... Read more
Acknowledgments, Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter II: The Metaphors of Freedom: Republican Ideology and Women's Rights in the Plays by Mercy Otis Warren and Susanna Haswell Rowson, Chapter III: Industrial Capitalism and the Status of Middle-Class Women in Mid-nineteenth-century American Family: Anna Cora Mowatt's Fashion (1845) and Sidney F. Bateman's Self(1856), Chapter IV: Gender Perspective and Ideology in Frances Wright's Altoif(l819) and Julia W. Howe's Leonora (1857), Chapter V: Conclusion, Appendix, Works Cited, Index
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Zoe Desti-Demanti
