LEADER 04100oam 2200781I 450 001 9910461790703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-53304-9 010 $a9786613845498 010 $a0-203-84001-1 010 $a1-136-88866-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203840016 035 $a(CKB)2670000000230973 035 $a(EBL)988025 035 $a(OCoLC)806206455 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000694857 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12341802 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000694857 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10667285 035 $a(PQKB)11513213 035 $a(OCoLC)806039911 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC988025 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL988025 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10588939 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL384549 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000230973 100 $a20180706d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAntebellum American women writers and the road $eAmerican mobilities /$fSusan L. Roberson 210 1$aNew York ;$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2011. 215 $a1 online resource (201 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ;$v5 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-86888-4 311 $a0-415-88354-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAntebellum American Women Writers and the Road American Mobilities; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: American Mobilities; 1 "What hath befallen me": Sites of Contestation in Sarah Beavis's Two Narratives of Her Adventures on the Mississippi River; 2 "With the Wind Rocking the Wagon": Women's Narratives of the Way West; 3 The Politics of Mobility: Self and Nation In-(Between) Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes; 4 "A Higher Call": Mobility, Spirituality, and Social Uplift in the Narratives of Maria Stewart and Jarena Lee 327 $a5 Circulations of Body and Word: Women's Slave Narratives6 Domesticating the Road in the Wide World of Antebellum Women's Novels; 7 Touristic Writing by Antebellum Women Sightseers; 8 Jane Cazneau and Margaret Fuller: The Politics of Mobility-Manifest Destiny and Revolution; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index 330 $aA study of American women's narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. Concerned with issues of personal and national identity, the study demonstrates how women not only went out on the open road, but participated in public discussions of nationhood in the texts they wrote. Roberson examines a variety of narratives and subjects, including not only traditional travel narratives of voyages to the West or to foreign locales, but also the ways travel and movemen 410 0$aRoutledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ;$v5. 606 $aTravelers' writings, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican prose literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aTravel writing$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aTravel in literature 606 $aPlace (Philosophy) in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTravelers' writings, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican prose literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aTravel writing$xHistory 615 0$aTravel in literature. 615 0$aPlace (Philosophy) in literature. 676 $a810.9/355 700 $aRoberson$b Susan L.$f1950-,$0949815 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461790703321 996 $aAntebellum American women writers and the road$92146866 997 $aUNINA