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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... Mary Conant in Hobomok and Hope Leslie in the eponymous novel - are in fact aristocrats . Mary is an earl's granddaughter . When the book opens she has just recently come to the primitive colony , where her domestic life is dominated by ...
... ( Mary Howard Schoolcraft ) , 93 , 155 Blanchard , Paula , 291 Bleecker , Ann Eliza , 152 , 167–168 , 242 , 266 , 289 , 292 Bloch , Ruth H. , 283 , 286 Bloody Mary . See Mary Tudor Blumin , Stuart M. , 284 Blunt , Ellen Key , 176 , 242 ...
... Mary Bunyan ( Sallie Ford ) , 177 Mary Derwent ( Ann Sophia Stephens ) , 161 , 169 , 174 Mary Stuart , queen of Scots , 36 , 143 , 217 , 218 , 219–221 , 230 , 232-233 Mary Tudor ( Bloody Mary ) , 182 , 183 , 218 , 222 Matthews , Jean V ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Maternal Historians Didactic Mothers | 29 |
History from the Divine Point of View | 46 |
Copyright | |
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