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Lawrence Deborah |
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Titolo |
Writing the trail [[electronic resource] ] : five women's frontier narratives / / Deborah Lawrence |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (171 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) |
Women pioneers - West (U.S.) |
Frontier and pioneer life in literature |
First person narrative - History and criticism |
American literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
Women - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century |
Sex role in literature |
Sex role - West (U.S.) - History - 19th century |
West (U.S.) History 1848-1860 Sources |
West (U.S.) History 1860-1890 Sources |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-154) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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