Writing for Immortality Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America

• Váldodahkki: Boyd, Anne E. (auth)
• Materiálatiipa: Elektrovnnalaš Girjji oassi
• Giella: eaŋgalasgiella
• Almmustuhtton: Johns Hopkins University Press 2004
• Fáttát: Literature: history & criticism
• Liŋkkat: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Before the Civil War, American writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Harriet Beecher Stowe had established authorship as a respectable profession for women. But though they had written some of the most popular and influential novels of the century, they accepted the taboo against female write...