Elizabeth Stoddard and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Culture

Informationen zum Autor Lynn Mahoney received her Ph.D. in U.S. History from Rutgers University. She is currently the Director of Liberal Studies and Academic Advising at Purchase College, SUNY, where she teaches history and women's studies. Klappentext First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung This book traces Stoddard's emergence as a writer in the 1850s, her conflict-ridden relationships with the writers associated with the genteel tradition, and her efforts to negotiate the boundaries of Victorian culture in the USA. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Becoming Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard Chapter Two: Female Self-Expression in a Sentimental Age: The Pythoness and the Sentinels of Genteel Literature Chapter Three: I was not allowed to give myself-I was taken: Passive Women and Feminized Men Chapter Four: Shall I dare tell the truth about women?: Reconstructing the Victorian Self Chapter Five: Rewriting Region: The Postbellum Celebration of New England Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Lynn Mahoney, Mahoney Lynn
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2004
• EAN: 9780415968348
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96834-8
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, Cultural Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Humanities, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism