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Feminist interventions in early American studies

Title: Feminist interventions in early American studies / edited by Mary C. Carruth.
Publication: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2006.

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Additional Authors

Carruth, Mary Clare.

Description

xxii, 328 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

The intersections of gender, race, and class in the culture and literature of early America to 1830. Because feminist scholarship is thriving in the field of colonial American studies, this volume is timely. It showcases new feminist perspectives on the literature of the period, addressing the diverse experiences of European, African, Latin, and Native Americans. The essays synthesize feminist perspectives from a number of approaches, including cultural studies, gender studies, new historicism, and race theory. They treat a variety of literary genres, from sermons, travel narratives, letters, and diaries to poetry, drama, and early novels. Some of the essays recover little known texts, such as the travel records of women Quakers and colonial accounts of the Creek "Indian princess" Mary Musgrove. Other essays consider the lesser-known texts of established writers, such as the unpublished essays of Crevecoeur and the letters of Judith Sargent Murray. Finally, other essays bring new perspectives to texts that are the subjects of ongoing scholarly debates, such as the poetry of Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley and the fiction of Tabitha Tenney and Lucy Brewer.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-315) and index.

Contents

Feminist theories and early American studies/ Sharon M. Harris -- "My goods are true": Tenth muses in the new world market/ Tamara Harvey -- self-fashioning through self-portraiture in Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz/ Margo Echenberg -- "Keepers of the Covenant": submissive captives and maternal redeemers in Colonial New England, 1660-1680 / Sarah Rivett -- Between abjection and redemption: Mary Rowlandson's subversive corporeality / Mary C. Carruth -- "caried trials, dippings, and strippings": Quaker Women's irresistible call to the early South / Michele Lise Tarter -- Of Harlots and Hags: feminine Embodiments of Early American Whiteness/ Valerie Babb -- Imagining Mary Musgrove: "Georgia's Creek Indian Princess" and Southern Identity / Angela Pulley Hudson -- Imaginative conjunctions on the Imperial "Frontier": Catharine Sedgwick reads Mungo Park / Ivy Schweitzer -- Elegiac Patriarchs: Crevecoeur and the war of masculinities/ Anne G. Myles -- Phillis Wheatley and the Black American revolution / Betsy Erkkila -- An actor in the drama of revolution: Deborah Sampson, print, and performance in the creation of celebrity / Karen A. Weyler -- Reading the letters of Judith Sargent Murray: from private correspondence to public voice / Mary Rose Kasraie -- Judith Sargent Murray's medium between calculation and feeling / Jennifer J. Baker -- "Daughters of America," Slaves In Algiers: activism and abnegation off Rowson's Barbary Coast / Marion Rust -- Columbia's daughters in drag: or, cross-dressing, collaboration, and authorship in early American novels / Lisa M. Logan -- Inscribing Manhood and enacting womanhood in the early republic / Angela Vietto.

ISBN

0817315233
0817353429
9780817315238
9780817353421

LCCN

2006006958
9780817315238
9780817353421
99814572731

OCLC

ocm64486691
64486691
SCSB-1410046

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library