Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America

Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America
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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 0754653382
ISBN-13 : 9780754653387
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Book Synopsis Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America by : Angela Vietto

Download or read book Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America written by Angela Vietto and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In distinct contrast to earlier studies on early US women's authorship, this book argues that women writers in Revolutionary America viewed civic participation as a key component of the social role of authorship, and that they used authorship as a means to contribute publicly to the evolving creation of the new nation's political and social identities.Angela Vietto here analyzes poetry, letters, religious texts, essays and plays by early American writers Mercy Otis Warren, Sarah Osborn and Susanna Anthony, Hannah Adams, Eunice Smith, Jenny Fenno, Sarah Pogson Smith, Judith Sargent Murray and Hannah Griffitts, among others.


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