Antebellum American women writers and the road American mobilities / Susan L. Roberson.

Author/creator Roberson, Susan L., 1950-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York ; London : Routledge,
Description191 p. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Travelers' writings, American--History and criticism.
American prose literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
American literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Women and literature--United States. --History. --19th century.
Travel writing--History. --19th century.
Travel in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.

SeriesRoutledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 5
Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature 5. ^A1047820
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [172]-186) and index.
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LCCN 2010018395
ISBN9780415883542 (hc)
ISBN0415883547 (hc)
ISBN9780203840016 (ebk.)
ISBN0203840011 (ebk.)

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