TY - BOOK AU - Laffrado,Laura ED - Project Muse. TI - Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing SN - 9780814271605 AV - PS152 .L34 2009 U1 - 810.9/9287 22 PB - Ohio State University Press KW - Feminism and literature KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Women and literature KW - Sex role in literature KW - Women, White, in literature KW - Women in literature KW - American literature KW - History and criticism KW - Women authors KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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; Open Access UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/27816/ ER -