Mary McAleer Balkun,
Susan C. Imbarrato
Palgrave Macmillan US
e druk, 2016
9781349581023
Women’s Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire
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Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US |
e druk, 2016
ISBN13: 9781349581023
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
The essays in this collection examine the connections between the forces of empire and women's lives in the early Americas, in particular the ways their narratives contributed to empire formation. Focusing on the female body as a site of contestation, the essays describe acts of bravery, subversion, and survival expressed in a variety of genres, including the saga, letter, diary, captivity narrative, travel narrative, verse, sentimental novel, and autobiography. The volume also speaks to a range of female experience, across the Americas and across time, from the Viking exploration to early nineteenth-century United States, challenging scholars to reflect on the implications of early American literature even to the present day.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349581023
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US
Inhoudsopgave
Preface; Mary McAleer Balkun and Susan C. Imbarrato<BR>Introduction; Marion Rust<BR>1. Gudrid Thorbjornsdöttir: First Foremother of American Empire; Annette Kolodny<BR>2. Ungendering Empire: Catalina de Erauso and the Performance of Masculinity; Cathy Rex<BR>3. Creole Civic Pride and Positioning "Exceptional" Black Women; Joan Bristol and Tamara Harvey<BR>4. Imposing Order: Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal and the Anglo-American Empire; Ann M. Brunjes<BR>5. The Midwife's Calling: Martha Ballard's Diary and the Empire of Medical Knowledge in the Early Republic; Thomas Lawrence Long<BR>6. The Birth Pangs of the American Mother: Puritanism, Republicanism, and the Letter-Journal of Esther Edwards Burr; Samantha Cohen Tamulis<BR>7. Empire and the Pan-Atlantic Self in The Female American; or, the Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield; Denise Mary MacNeil<BR>8. 'The Fever and the Fetters': An Epidemiology of Captivity and Empire; Sarah Schuetze<BR>9. Women Left Behind: Female Loyalism, Coverture, and Grace Growden Galloway's Empire of Self; Kacy Dowd Tillman<BR>10. 'Solitary, Neglected, Despised': Cruel Optimism and National Sentimentality; Astrid M. Fellner and Susanne Hamscha<BR>11. The Woman of Colour and Black Atlantic Movement; Brigitte Fielder<BR>12. New World Roots: Transatlantic Fictions, Creole Marriages, and Women's Cultivation of Empire in the Americas;Rochelle Raineri Zuck<BR>13. Catharine Brown's Body: Missionary Spiritualization and Cherokee Embodiment; Theresa Strouth Gaul<BR>14. Territorial Agency: Negotiations of Space and Empire in the Domestic Violence Memoirs of Abigail Abbot Bailey and Anne Home Livingston; Lisa M. Logan<BR>15. 'Her Book the Only Hope She Had': Self and Sovereignty in the Narratives of Ann Carson; Dan Williams<BR>16. Bodies of Work: Early American Women Writers, Empire, and Pedagogy; Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola<BR>