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Author:

Kerrison, Catherine, 1953-

Title:

Claiming the pen : women and intellectual life in the early American South / Catherine Kerrison.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xiii, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women--Southern States--Intellectual life--18th century.
Women--History--Southern States--History--18th century.
Women authors, American--Southern States--History--18th century.
Women and literature--Southern States--History--18th century.
American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-258) and index.

Contents:

Toward an intellectual history of early Southern women -- "The truest kind of breeding" : prescriptive literature in the early South -- Religion, voice, and authority -- Reading novels in the South -- Reading, race, and writing -- The enduring problem of female authorship and authority.

ISBN:

9780801443442
9780801443442 (cloth : alk. paper)
080144344X (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60668998

LCCN:

2005016063

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)