Uncommon Women : Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing /

Laffrado, Laura.

Uncommon Women : Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing / Laura Laffrado. - 1 online resource (187 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

"Without any resort to Amazonian conventions" : women, writing, representation -- "A more masculine courage" : women's voice and the nineteenth-century publication of Sarah Kemble Knight's Journal -- "Everything by turns and nothing long" : configurations of female selfhood in Fanny Fern's early periodical writing -- "How could you leave me alone when the room was full of men!" : gender and self-representation in Louisa May Alcott's Hospital sketches -- "I am other than my appearance indicates" : sex-gender representation in women's nineteenth-century Civil War reminiscences -- "I found it hard to preserve my self-control" : race, women, representation.

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Women, White, in literature.
Women in literature.
Women and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Feminism and literature.
American literature--Women authors.
American literature.
Écrits de femmes americains--Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine--Histoire et critique.--19e siecle
Femmes dans la litterature.
Blanches dans la litterature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Femmes et litterature--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siecle.
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Women in literature.
Women, White, in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Women and literature--History--United States--19th century.
Feminism and literature--History--United States--19th century.


United States.


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