American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790-1860: Styles of Affiliation

by Nina Baym

Book Overview

Just as she helped launch the rediscovery of literary texts by American women writers, Nina Baym now uncovers the work of history performed by over 150 writers in over 350 texts. Here she explores a world of important writing unknown even to most specialists. The novels, poems, plays, textbooks, and travel narratives written by women between 1790 and the Civil War defy current theories of women's writing that stress a female domain of the private,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813521432
• ISBN13: 9780813521435
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.