Writing the pioneer woman / Janet Floyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Floyd, Janet.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American prose literature.

Frontier and pioneer life--United States--Historiography.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Women immigrants--United States--Biography--History and criticism.

Women immigrants.

Women pioneers--United States--Biography--History and criticism.

Women pioneers.

Immigrants' writings, American--History and criticism.

Immigrants' writings, American.

Women and literature--United States--History.

Women and literature.

Autobiography--Women authors.

Autobiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Pioneer woman

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on a series of autobiographical texts, published and private, well known and obscure, Writing the Pioneer Woman examines the writing of domestic life on the nineteenth-century North American frontier. In an attempt to determine the meanings found in the pioneer woman's everyday writings -- from records of recipes to descriptions of washing floors -- Janet Floyd explores domestic details in the autobiographical writing of British and Anglo-American female emigrants.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 A Tradition of Pioneers

2 Private Enterprise

3 Recipes for Success

4 Domesticity and Dirt

5 Space in Which to be Imaginative

6 Plotting the Golden West

7 To Recover Those Once Known but Now Forgotten

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-215) and index.

ISBN:

0-8262-6265-1

OCLC:

301177151