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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... Sedgwick's Hope Leslie ( 1827 ) two . Both Child and Sedgwick had more success in other modes - Child's journalistic Letters from New York ( 1841 , 1843 ) had eleven editions and Sedgwick's fictionalized advice book Home ( 1835 ) had ...
... Sedgwick is even more forthright than Child about the inevitability and morality of Indian removal . True , she ... Sedgwick's determination to defend New England from New Yorkers like Irving constrains her expressions of sympathy for ...
... SEDGWICK , CATHARINE MARIA Born on 28 Dec. 1789 to Theodore and Pamela ( Dwight ) Sedgwick in Stockbridge , Mass .; never married ; died on 31 July 1867 in West Roxbury , Mass .; buried in Stockbridge , Mass . Occupations : writer ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Maternal Historians Didactic Mothers | 29 |
History from the Divine Point of View | 46 |
Copyright | |
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