Mahoney Elizabeth Stoddard & the Boundaries of Bourgeois Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-88342-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Major Literary Authors

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mahoney, Lynn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.