216 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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Elizabeth Stoddard and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Culture traces Stoddard's emergence as a writer in the 1850s, her conflict-ridden relationships with the writers associated with the genteel tradition, and her efforts to negotiate the boundaries of Victorian culture in the United States. While in many ways a critic of nineteenth-century bourgeois culture, Stoddard remained in other ways an... Read more
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Becoming Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard Chapter Two: Female Self-Expression in a Sentimental Age: The Pythoness and the Sentinels of Genteel Literature Chapter Three: I was not allowed to give myself-I was taken: Passive Women and Feminized Men Chapter Four: Shall I dare tell the truth about women?: Reconstructing the Victorian Self Chapter Five: Rewriting Region: The Postbellum Celebration of New England Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Lynn Mahoney received her Ph.D. in U.S. History from Rutgers University. She is currently the Director of Liberal Studies and Academic Advising at Purchase College, SUNY, where she teaches history and women's studies.
