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Wielding the Pen: Writings on Authorship by American Women of the Nineteenth Century
Anne E. Boyd (Ed.)
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Description for Wielding the Pen: Writings on Authorship by American Women of the Nineteenth Century
Paperback. This anthology of primary materials-the words of American women writers on the act of authorship and their participation in the literary cultures of the nineteenth century- offers revealing insight into Hawthorne's "damned mob of scribbling women." Editor(s): Boyd, Anne E. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; DSC; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 703.
Wielding the Pen presents a wide spectrum of nineteenth-century American women's writings on the themes of authorship and creativity. These works reflect the fears, desires, and motivations of female authors, as well as the opportunities and obstacles they encountered as professional writers. Anne E. Boyd includes representative samples from a diverse range of writers. These writings, some of which are reprinted here for the first time, challenge prevailing notions about women and authorship in the nineteenth century and shed light on the relationship between women's lives as writers and their evolving roles in the larger, male-dominated literary community. ... Read more
Wielding the Pen presents a wide spectrum of nineteenth-century American women's writings on the themes of authorship and creativity. These works reflect the fears, desires, and motivations of female authors, as well as the opportunities and obstacles they encountered as professional writers. Anne E. Boyd includes representative samples from a diverse range of writers. These writings, some of which are reprinted here for the first time, challenge prevailing notions about women and authorship in the nineteenth century and shed light on the relationship between women's lives as writers and their evolving roles in the larger, male-dominated literary community. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801892752
SKU
V9780801892752
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About Anne E. Boyd (Ed.)
Anne E. Boyd is an associate professor of English and women's studies at the University of New Orleans and author of Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America, also published by Johns Hopkins.
Reviews for Wielding the Pen: Writings on Authorship by American Women of the Nineteenth Century
"A important addition to our library of nineteenth-century American women's writing, illuminating in their own voices their literary ambitions, frustrations, and triumphs." - Karen L. Kilcup, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro"