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Writing the trail [[electronic resource] ] : five women's frontier narratives / / Deborah Lawrence



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Autore: Lawrence Deborah Visualizza persona
Titolo: Writing the trail [[electronic resource] ] : five women's frontier narratives / / Deborah Lawrence Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (171 p.)
Disciplina: 978
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: West (U.S.) History 1848-1860 Sources
West (U.S.) History 1860-1890 Sources
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-154) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Writing the trail  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-58729-730-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782569203321
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