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Writing the trail : five women's frontier narratives / Deborah Lawrence.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lawrence, Deborah.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)--Sources.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Women pioneers--West (U.S.)--Biography.
- Women pioneers.
- Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
- First person narrative--History and criticism.
- First person narrative.
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Women--West (U.S.)--History--19th century--Sources.
- Women.
- Sex role in literature.
- Sex role--West (U.S.)--History--19th century--Sources.
- Sex role.
- West (U.S.)--History--1848-1860--Sources.
- West (U.S.).
- West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890--Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (171 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For a long time, the American West was mainly identified with white masculinity, but as more women's narratives of westward expansion came to light, scholars revised purely patriarchal interpretations. Writing the Trail continues in this vein by providing a comparative literary analysis of five frontier narratives---Susan Magoffin's Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico, Sarah Royce's A Frontier Lady, Louise Clappe's The Shirley Letters, Eliza Farnham's California, In-doors and Out, and Lydia Spencer Lane's I Married a Soldier---to explore the ways in which women's responses to the western e
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Susan Shelby Magoffin: A Wandering Princess on the Santa Fe Trail; Sarah Bayliss Royce: A Narrative of Frontier Housekeeping; Louise Smith Clappe: A Feminine View of the Elephant; Eliza Burhans Farnham: At Home in the California Wilderness; Lydia Spencer Lane: The Tender Recollections of an Old Soldier; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-154) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781587297304
- 1587297302
- OCLC:
- 609443834
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