158 Pages
by
Routledge
158 Pages
by
Routledge
158 Pages
by
Routledge
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Exploring the wealth of writings by early American women in a broad spectrum of genres, Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America presents one of the few synthetic approaches to early US women’s writing. Through an examination of the strategic choices writers made as they constructed their authorial identities at a moment when ideals of both Author and Woman were in flux, Angela Vietto argues... Read more
Contents: Introduction: Revolutionary American women writers in literary history; Literary sorority in private and in print: publicizing woman's sphere; Maternal authorship: inscribing manhood; The pen and the sword: women writing women warriors; Authorizing female citizenship: beyond Republican motherhood; On careers for women writers: Murray, Warren, Morton; Epilogue; Bibliography; Notes on selected primary texts; Index.
Biography
Angela Vietto is Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University, USA.
'Women and Authorship provides important ways of re-conceiving key concepts in early American women’s writing, including authorship, separate spheres, and the construction of literary history. Engagingly written and highly informative, it also models a new way of writing such history.' Susan S. Williams, author of Reclaiming Authorship: Literary Women in America, 1850-1900 'This refreshingly concise volume traces an alternative history in the development of American women's writing... Highly recommended.' Choice ’The book is particularly useful in its consideration of a variety of genres such as popular religious tracts, histories, and compendia, and of little known authors... It will [...] create interest and debate among American eighteenth-century scholars.’ The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer
