American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790-1860Just as she helped launch the rediscovery of literary texts by American women writers, Nina Baym now uncovers the work of history performed by over 150 writers in over 350 texts. Here she explores a world of important writing unknown even to most specialists. The novels, poems, plays, textbooks, and travel narratives written by women between 1790 and the Civil War defy current theories of women's writing that stress a female domain of the private, homebound, and emotional. History is inarguably public in its nature and these women wrote it. In doing so, they challenged the imaginative and intellectual boundaries that divided domestic and public worlds. They claimed on behalf of all women the rights to know and to speak about the world outside the home, as well as to circulate their knowledge and opinions among the public. Their work helped shape the enormous public interest in history characteristic of the antebellum nation, and ultimately to forge our national identity in the history of the world. Nina Baym deftly outlines the master narrative of history implied in women's writings of this period, and discusses in a completely revisioned context the emergence of women's history in public discourse.
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... Born on 26 Apr. 1802 to Samuel Sumner and Wilde in Hallowell , Maine ; married 23 Nov. 1824 to Caleb Cushing in Newburyport , Mass .; died on 28 Aug. 1832 in Newburyport , Mass .; buried in New Hill Cemetery , Newburyport , Mass ...
... Born on 8 Oct. 1794 to Samuel and Anna ( Lillie ) Howard in Boston , Mass .; married on 14 Dec. 1819 to the Rev. Samuel Gilman ( d . 1858 ) probably in Bos- ton , Mass .; died on 15 Sept. 1888 in Washington , D.C .; buried in Charleston ...
... Born on II Aug. 1811 to George and Sally Minge ( Walker ) Walton near Augusta , Ga .; married on 6 Feb. 1836 to Henry Strachey Le Vert in Mobile , Ala .; died on 12 Mar. 1877 near Augusta , Ga .; buried in Walker Family Cemetery , US ...
Contents
Women as Students of History II | 11 |
Maternal Historians Didactic Mothers | 29 |
History from the Divine Point of View | 46 |
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