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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552779103321

Autore

Harris Sharon M

Titolo

Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law / / Sharon M. Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

0-8142-7284-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 240 p. )

Disciplina

818/.108099287

Soggetti

Law in literature

Race in literature

Social problems in literature

Women - United States - Intellectual life

Law and literature - History - 18th century

Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 19th century

American literature - 1783-1850 - History and criticism

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

Literature and society - United States - History - 18th century

American prose literature - Women authors - History and criticism

American prose literature - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - History and criticism

Electronic books.

United States Race relations History 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-226) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Executing race : infanticide narratives -- Belinda : the politics of petitions -- Posthumous constructions : the writings of Ann Eliza Bleecker -- Margaretta Bleecker Faugeres : a post-revolutionary "freedom of mind" -- Lost boundaries : carnivalizing race and sexuality in Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism -- Lucy Terry : a life of radical resistance -- Appendix : Lucy Terry's obituary.