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A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 18001922 (Voice in the American West)
Susan Cummin Miller
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Description for A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 18001922 (Voice in the American West)
Paperback. An anthology of thirty-four writers who published during the settlement years of the American frontier. It assembles nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and occasional writings from women of Anglo, Chinese, Hispanic, and Native American ethnicity, addressing such themes as isolation, drudgery, friendship, mourning, and even mysticism. Editor(s): Miller, Susan Cummins. Series: Voice in the American West. Num Pages: 462 pages, New Preface. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 748.
'In this book are bits and pieces of dreams, lives, experiences, and vistas, like squares cut from old cloth and assembled into a crazy quilt of writing styles and forms. The patchwork design mirrors both the complexity of the chroniclers and the stark lines and angles of the American frontier' - Susan Cummins Miller, from the introduction. In this anthology of thirty-four writers who published during the settlement years of the American frontier, Miller assembles nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and occasional writings from women of Anglo, Chinese, Hispanic, and Native American ethnicity. Variously addressing such themes as isolation, drudgery, friendship, mourning, ... Read more
'In this book are bits and pieces of dreams, lives, experiences, and vistas, like squares cut from old cloth and assembled into a crazy quilt of writing styles and forms. The patchwork design mirrors both the complexity of the chroniclers and the stark lines and angles of the American frontier' - Susan Cummins Miller, from the introduction. In this anthology of thirty-four writers who published during the settlement years of the American frontier, Miller assembles nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and occasional writings from women of Anglo, Chinese, Hispanic, and Native American ethnicity. Variously addressing such themes as isolation, drudgery, friendship, mourning, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Condition
New
Series
Voice in the American West
Number of Pages
462
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896726185
SKU
V9780896726185
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Reviews for A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 18001922 (Voice in the American West)
This book deserves a place alongside other compilations of women's experience of the early days out West.
Cindy Bellinger, Enchantment Sept. 2008 ""This useful and accessible collection has great appeal for general readers with an interest in western, nineteenth-century, or women's history. Moreover, college and high school instructors will find it a welcome source and textbook.""
Jennifer L. Jenkins, Journal ... Read more
Cindy Bellinger, Enchantment Sept. 2008 ""This useful and accessible collection has great appeal for general readers with an interest in western, nineteenth-century, or women's history. Moreover, college and high school instructors will find it a welcome source and textbook.""
Jennifer L. Jenkins, Journal ... Read more