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Women's narratives of the early Americas and the formation of empire / edited by Mary McAleer Balkun and Susan C. Imbarrato.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- American prose literature--Women authors.
- American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Minority authors.
- American prose literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism.
- Women authors, American--Biography--History and criticism.
- Women authors, American.
- Women authors, American--Biography.
- Women--United States--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Women.
- Women in literature.
- Politics in literature.
- Nationalism in literature.
- Social problems in literature.
- American prose literature--Colonial period.
- Women--Intellectual life.
- Intellectual life.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- x, 286 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Marion Rust
- Gudrid Thorbjornsdöttir: first foremother of American empire / Annette Kolodny
- Un-gendering empire: Catalina De Erauso and the performance of masculinity / Cathy Rex
- Creole civic pride and positioning "exceptional" black women / Joan Bristol and Tamara Harvey
- Imposing order: Sarah Kemble Knight's journal and the Anglo-American empire / Ann Brunjes
- The midwife's calling: Martha Ballard's diary and the empire of medical knowledge in the early republic / Thomas Lawrence Long
- The birth pangs of the American mother: puritanism, republicanism, and the letter-journal of Esther Edwards Burr / Samantha Cohen Tamulis
- Empire and the pan-Atlantic self in the female American; or, The adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield / Denise Mary Macneil
- "The fever and the fetters": an epidemiology of captivity and empire / Sarah C. Schuetze
- Women left behind: female loyalism, coverture, and Grace Growden Galloway's Empire of self / Kacy Tillman
- "Solitary, neglected, despised": cruel optimism and national sentimentality / Astrid M. Fellner and Susanne Hamscha
- The woman of colour and Black Atlantic Movement / Brigitte Fielder
- New world roots: transatlantic fictions, Creole marriages, and women's cultivation of empire in the Americas / Rochelle Raineri Zuck
- Catharine Brown's body: missionary spiritualizations and Cherokee embodiment / Theresa Strouth Gaul
- Territorial agency: negotiations of space and empire in the domestic violence memoirs of Abigail Abbot Bailey and Anne Home Livingston / Lisa M. Logan
- "Her book the only hope she had": self and sovereignty in the narratives of Ann Carson / Dan Williams
- Bodies of work: early American women writers, empire, and pedagogy / Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 113755990X
- 9781137559906
- OCLC:
- 917340692
- Publisher Number:
- 99966578287
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