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Author:

Roberson, Susan L., 1950-

Title:

Antebellum American women writers and the road : American mobilities / Susan L. Roberson.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

188 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
American prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Women and literature--United States--History--19th century.
Travel writing--History--19th century.
Travel in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"What hath befallen me" : sites of contestation in Sarah Beavis's two narratives of her adventures on the Mississippi River -- "With the wind rocking the wagon" : women's narratives of the way West -- The politics of mobility : self and nation in-(between) Margaret Fuller's Summer on the lakes -- "A higher call" : mobility, spirituality, and social uplift in the narratives of Maria Stewart and Jarena Lee -- Circulations of body and word : women's slave narratives -- Domesticating the road in the wide world of antebellum women's novels -- Touristic writing by antebellum women sightseers -- Jane Cazneau and Margaret Fuller : the politics of mobility, manifest destiny and revolution.

Series:

Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 5

ISBN:

0203840011 (ebk.)
9780203840016 (ebk.)
0415883547
9780415883542

OCLC:

(OCoLC)548660349

LCCN:

2010018395

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)