Uncommon women : gender and representation in nineteenth-century U.S. women's writing by Laffrado, Laura instant download

Uncommon women : gender and representation in nineteenth-century U.S. women's writing by Laffrado, Laura instant download

viii, 187 p. ; 24 cm, Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-180) and index, \"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