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02421aam a2200457 i 4500 001 14DD66B0688611E8A317244297128E48 003 SILO 005 20180605010123 008 180111s2018 tnua b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2017057797 020 $a 1621904091 020 $a 9781621904090 035 $a (OCoLC)1017600112 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d BDX $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS374.H47 $b S65 2018 082 00 $a 810.9/3522 $2 23 084 $a LIT004020 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Smith, Sandra Wilson, $e author. 245 14 $a The action-adventure heroine : $b rediscovering an American literary character, 1697-1895 / $c Sandra Wilson Smith. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Knoxville : $b The University of Tennessee Press, $c [2018] 300 $a vii, 280 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "His book probes the action-adventure heroine character in eighteenth and nineteenth-century American literature. Smith analyzes captivity narratives, war narratives, stories of manifest destiny, dime novels, and tales of seduction to reveal a long literary history of female heroes who step into more male-associated roles to win the day. Along the way, Smith examines such authors as Herman Mann, Emerson Bennett, Catherine Maria Sedgewick, Mercy Otis Warren, and Eden Southworth, among others"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a Heroines in literature. 650 0 $a Adventure stories, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM $x General. $x General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Adventure stories, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00797469 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a Heroines in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00955621 648 7 $a 1700-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 776 08 $i Online version: $a Smith, Sandra Wilson. $t Action-adventure heroine. $d Knoxville : University Tennessee Press, 2018 $z 9781621904106 $w (DLC) 2018008199 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200103021456.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20190212025403.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=14DD66B0688611E8A317244297128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search