Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America

by Angela Vietto

Exploring the wealth of writings by early American women in a broad spectrum of genres, Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America presents one of the few synthetic approaches to early US women's writing. Through an examination of the strategic choices writers made as they constructed their authorial identities at a moment when ideals of both Author and Woman were in flux, Angela Vietto argues that the relationship between gender and authorship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138262943
• ISBN13: 9781138262942
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 158 Pages