In the neighborhood : women's publication in early America / Caroline Wigginton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wigginton, Caroline, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--18th century--History and criticism.

Women and literature--United States--History--18th century.

Women and literature.

American literature--Women authors.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 223 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]

Summary:

In This Deeply Researched and Original Book, Caroline Wigginton reshapes our understanding of early American literary history. She explores how women's "relational publications"-circulated texts, objects, and performances-transformed their public and intimate words. In so doing she overturns the notion that the male-dominated print culture of pamphlets, broadsides, and newspapers were the sole "published" instigators of revolutionary ideas. Wigginton argues that Native, black, and white women's interpersonal "publications" changed the dynamics of power and connection in public and private spaces, whether those spaces were Quaker meeting houses, Creek talwas, trading posts, burial grounds, or the women's own "neighborhoods". Book jacket.

Contents:

Coosaponakeesa's colonial neighborhood

Vexing motherhood and interracial intimacy

The consolation of Phillis Wheatley's Elegies

Unions of the soul.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-212) and index.

ISBN:

9781625342225

1625342225

9781625342218

1625342217

OCLC:

930997652