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03977aam a2200481 i 4500 001 1EFC5FBAF47811EDA3FB15433FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230517010023 008 221001s2023 lau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022023291 020 $a 0807178489 020 $a 9780807178485 035 $a (OCoLC)1322049527 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d UKMGB $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d LML $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS374.W6 $b O63 2023 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a O'Malley, Maria, $d 1976- $e author. 245 10 $a Imaginary empires : $b women writers and alternative futures in early US literature / $c Maria O'Malley. 264 1 $a Baton Rouge : $b Louisiana State University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a x, 230 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "In Imaginary Empires, Maria O'Malley examines early American texts published between 1767 and 1867 whose narratives represent women's engagement in the formation of empire. Her analysis unearths a variety of responses to contact, exchange, and cohabitation in the early United States, stressing the possibilities inherent in the literary to foster participation, resignification, and rapprochement. New readings of The Female American, Leonora Sansay's Secret History, Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie, Lydia Maria Child's A Romance of the Republic, and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl confound the metaphors of ghosts, haunting, and amnesia that proliferate in many recent studies of early US literary history. Instead, as O'Malley shows, these writings foreground acts of foundational violence involved in the militarization of domestic spaces, the legal impediments to the transfer of property and wealth, and the geopolitical standing of the United States. Racialized and gendered figures in the texts refuse to die, leave, or stay silent. In imagining different kinds of futures, these writers reckon with the ambivalent role of women in empire-building as they negotiate between their own subordinate position in society and their exertion of sovereignty over others. By tracing a thread of virtual history found in works by women, Imaginary Empires explores how reflections of the past offer a means of shaping future sociopolitical formations"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The "fantasy" of a woman in charge in the female American -- Talking sex and revolution in Saint-Domingue in Sansay's Secret history -- The militarization of home in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie -- The limits of the imaginary in the reconstructed US in Lydia Maria Child's Romance of the republic -- Massachusetts in the American imagination in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl. 648 7 $a 1700-1899 $2 fast 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Alternative histories (Fiction), American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Women in literature. 650 7 $a Alternative histories (Fiction), American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01736710 650 7 $a American fiction $x Women authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807099 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 $a Women in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177912 651 0 $a United States $x In literature. 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a O'Malley, Maria, 1976- $t Imaginary empires $d Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2023] $z 9780807179260 $w (DLC) 2022023292 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240502013016.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117014555.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1EFC5FBAF47811EDA3FB15433FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search