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Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America
Anne E. Boyd
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Description for Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America
Paperback. Although these women were encouraged by the democratic ideals implicit in such concepts, they were equally discouraged by lingering prejudices about their applicability to women. Num Pages: 326 pages, 8, 8 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
Before the Civil War, American writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Harriet Beecher Stowe had established authorship as a respectable profession for women. But though they had written some of the most popular and influential novels of the century, they accepted the taboo against female writers, regarding themselves as educators and businesswomen. During and after the Civil War, some women writers began to challenge this view, seeing themselves as artists writing for themselves and for posterity. Writing for Immortality studies the lives and works of four prominent members of the first generation of American women who strived for recognition ... Read more
Before the Civil War, American writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Harriet Beecher Stowe had established authorship as a respectable profession for women. But though they had written some of the most popular and influential novels of the century, they accepted the taboo against female writers, regarding themselves as educators and businesswomen. During and after the Civil War, some women writers began to challenge this view, seeing themselves as artists writing for themselves and for posterity. Writing for Immortality studies the lives and works of four prominent members of the first generation of American women who strived for recognition ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801894015
SKU
V9780801894015
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About Anne E. Boyd
Anne E. Boyd is an associate professor of English and women's studies at the University of New Orleans and editor of Wielding the Pen: Writings on Authorship by American Women of the Nineteenth Century, also published by Johns Hopkins.
Reviews for Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America
Scholars interested in examining the contributions of 19th-century women writers to American literature will appreciate the fresh perspective offered here. Choice 2005 Radically expands the literary world of nineteenth-century American women, considering them in conversation with European women writers as well as male writers in Europe and America.
Renee Bergland American Literature 2005 Boyd's close textual work gives the ... Read more
Renee Bergland American Literature 2005 Boyd's close textual work gives the ... Read more