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Uncommon Women Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing / Laura Laffrado.

By: Laffrado, LauraContributor(s): Project Muse [distributor]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ohio State University Press, Manufacturer: Project MUSE, Description: 1 online resource (viii, 187 p.)ISBN: 9780814271605; 081427160XSubject(s): Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Sex role in literature | Women, White, in literature | Women in literature | American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 810.9/9287 LOC classification: PS152 | .L34 2009Online resources: Full text available:
Contents:
"Without any resort to Amazonian conventions" : women, writing, representation -- "A more masculine courage" : women's voice and the nineteenth-century publication of Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal -- "Everything by turns and nothing long" : configurations of female selfhood in Fanny Fern's early periodical writing -- "How could you leave me alone when the room was full of men!" : gender and self-representation in Louisa May Alcott's Hospital sketches -- "I am other than my appearance indicates" : sex-gender representation in women's nineteenth-century Civil War reminiscences -- "I found it hard to preserve my self-control" : race, women, representation.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-180) and index.

"Without any resort to Amazonian conventions" : women, writing, representation -- "A more masculine courage" : women's voice and the nineteenth-century publication of Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal -- "Everything by turns and nothing long" : configurations of female selfhood in Fanny Fern's early periodical writing -- "How could you leave me alone when the room was full of men!" : gender and self-representation in Louisa May Alcott's Hospital sketches -- "I am other than my appearance indicates" : sex-gender representation in women's nineteenth-century Civil War reminiscences -- "I found it hard to preserve my self-control" : race, women, representation.

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