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1 online resource (191 pages). |
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polychrome |
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Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 5
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Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 5.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-186) and index. |
| Contents |
"What hath befallen me": sites of contestation in Sarah Beavis's two narratives of her adventures on the Mississippi River -- "With the wind rocking the wagon": women's narratives of the way West -- The politics of mobility: self and nation in-(between) Margaret Fuller's Summer on the lakes -- "A higher call": mobility, spirituality, and social uplift in the narratives of Maria Stewart and Jarena Lee -- Circulations of body and word: women's slave narratives -- Domesticating the road in the wide world of antebellum women's novels -- Touristic writing by antebellum women sightseers -- Jane Cazneau and Margaret Fuller: the politics of mobility, manifest destiny and revolution. |
| Summary |
A study of American women s narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. Concerned with issues of personal and national identity, the study demonstrates how women not only went out on the open road, but participated in public discussions of nationhood in the texts they wrote. Roberson examines a variety of narratives and subjects, including not only traditional travel narratives of voyages to the West or to foreign locales, but also the ways travel and movement figured in autobiography, spiritual, and political narratives, and domestic novels by women as they constructed their own politics of mobility. These narratives by such women as Margaret Fuller, Susan Warner, and Harriet Beecher Stowe destabilize the male-dominated stories of American travel and nation-building as women claimed the public road as a domain in which they belonged, bringing with them their own ideas about mobility, self, and nation. The many women s stories of mobility also destabilize a singular view of women s history and broaden our outlook on geographic movement and its repercussions for other movements. Looking at texts not usually labeled travel writing, like the domestic novel, brings to light social relations enacted on the road and the relation between story, location, and mobility. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Travelers' writings, American -- History and criticism.
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Travelers' writings, American. |
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American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American prose literature -- Women authors. |
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Travel writing -- History -- 19th century.
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Travel writing. |
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Travel in literature.
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Travel in literature. |
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Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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Place (Philosophy) in literature. |
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1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Roberson, Susan L., 1950- Antebellum American women writers and the road. New York ; London : Routledge, 2011 9780415883542 (DLC) 2010018395 (OCoLC)548660349 |
| ISBN |
9780203840016 (electronic book) |
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0203840011 (electronic book) |
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9781136888663 (electronic book) |
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1136888667 (electronic book) |
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9780415883542 |
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0415883547 |
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