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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... religious history , religious history with national history . Chinese literature then reveals " the history of the religious and philosophical progress of China , " where “ religion at length degenerated into that mingled idolatry and ...
... religion . One of the great designs of their being preserved and continued a distinct people ap- pears to be , that their singular destiny might confirm the divine au- thority of the gospel , which they reject ; and that they might ...
... religion , because at that time " to attain any degree of consideration , it was as requisite to be religious as it is now to be honest " ( 30 ) . The Puritans , who believed themselves led into the wilderness by God " to preserve the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Maternal Historians Didactic Mothers | 29 |
History from the Divine Point of View | 46 |
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