The Gender of Freedom Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere |
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| Author:
| Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8047-5847-5 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2004 |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $30.00 |
Book Description:
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In a sweeping reassessment of early American literature, The Gender of Freedom explores the workings of the literary public sphere--from its colonial emergence through the antebellum flourishing of sentimentalism--and places representations of and by women at the center rather than the margin of the public sphere and the politics of liberalism.
In a sweeping reassessment of early American literature, The Gender of Freedom explores the workings of the literary public sphere--from its colonial emergence through the antebellum flourishing of sentimentalism--and places representations of and by women at the center rather than the margin of the public sphere and the politics of liberalism.