The Resource Writing the trail : five women's frontier narratives, Deborah Lawrence
Writing the trail : five women's frontier narratives, Deborah Lawrence
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The item Writing the trail : five women's frontier narratives, Deborah Lawrence represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.
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- Summary
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- "For a long time, the American West was mainly identified with white masculinity, but as more women's narratives of westward expansion came to light, scholars revised purely patriarchal interpretations. Writing the Trail continues in this vein by providing a comparative literary analysis of five frontier narratives - Susan Magoffin's Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico, Sarah Royce's A Frontier Lady, Louise Clappe's The Shirley Letters, Eliza Farnham's California, In-doors and Out, and Lydia Spencer's I Married a Soldier - to explore the ways in which women's responses to the western environment differed from men's."
- "Because critics tend to consider nineteenth-century women's writings as confirmations of home and stability, they overlook aspects of women's textualizations of themselves that are dynamic and contingent on movement through space. As the narratives in Writing the Trail illustrate, women's frontier writings depict geographical, spiritual, and psychological movement. By tracing the journeys of Magoffin, Royce, Clappe, Farnham, and Lane, readers are exposed to the subversive strength of travel writing and come to a new understanding of gender roles on the nineteenth-century frontier."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 158 pages
- Contents
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- A wandering princess on the Santa Fe Trail / Susan Shelby Magoffin
- A narrative of frontier housekeeping / Sarah Bayliss Royce
- A feminine view of the elephant / Louise Smith Clappe
- At home in the California wilderness / Eliza Burhans Farnham
- The tender recollecitons of an old soldier / Lydia Spencer Lane
- Isbn
- 9781587295096
- Label
- Writing the trail : five women's frontier narratives
- Title
- Writing the trail
- Title remainder
- five women's frontier narratives
- Statement of responsibility
- Deborah Lawrence
- Subject
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- Biographies
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- First person narrative -- History and criticism
- Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Sources
- Frontier and pioneer life in literature
- History
- Sex role -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Sex role in literature
- Sources
- American literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890 -- Sources
- Women -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
- West (U.S.) -- History -- 1848-1860 -- Sources
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "For a long time, the American West was mainly identified with white masculinity, but as more women's narratives of westward expansion came to light, scholars revised purely patriarchal interpretations. Writing the Trail continues in this vein by providing a comparative literary analysis of five frontier narratives - Susan Magoffin's Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico, Sarah Royce's A Frontier Lady, Louise Clappe's The Shirley Letters, Eliza Farnham's California, In-doors and Out, and Lydia Spencer's I Married a Soldier - to explore the ways in which women's responses to the western environment differed from men's."
- "Because critics tend to consider nineteenth-century women's writings as confirmations of home and stability, they overlook aspects of women's textualizations of themselves that are dynamic and contingent on movement through space. As the narratives in Writing the Trail illustrate, women's frontier writings depict geographical, spiritual, and psychological movement. By tracing the journeys of Magoffin, Royce, Clappe, Farnham, and Lane, readers are exposed to the subversive strength of travel writing and come to a new understanding of gender roles on the nineteenth-century frontier."--BOOK JACKET
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lawrence, Deborah
- Dewey number
- 978
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- F596
- LC item number
- .L425 2006
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Frontier and pioneer life
- Women pioneers
- Frontier and pioneer life in literature
- First person narrative
- American literature
- Women
- Sex role in literature
- Sex role
- West (U.S.)
- West (U.S.)
- Label
- Writing the trail : five women's frontier narratives, Deborah Lawrence
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-154) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A wandering princess on the Santa Fe Trail / Susan Shelby Magoffin -- A narrative of frontier housekeeping / Sarah Bayliss Royce -- A feminine view of the elephant / Louise Smith Clappe -- At home in the California wilderness / Eliza Burhans Farnham -- The tender recollecitons of an old soldier / Lydia Spencer Lane
- Control code
- 67405704
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 158 pages
- Isbn
- 9781587295096
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2006045612
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other control number
- 9781587295096
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- Label
- Writing the trail : five women's frontier narratives, Deborah Lawrence
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-154) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A wandering princess on the Santa Fe Trail / Susan Shelby Magoffin -- A narrative of frontier housekeeping / Sarah Bayliss Royce -- A feminine view of the elephant / Louise Smith Clappe -- At home in the California wilderness / Eliza Burhans Farnham -- The tender recollecitons of an old soldier / Lydia Spencer Lane
- Control code
- 67405704
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 158 pages
- Isbn
- 9781587295096
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2006045612
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 9781587295096
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
Subject
- Biographies
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- First person narrative -- History and criticism
- Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Sources
- Frontier and pioneer life in literature
- History
- Sex role -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Sex role in literature
- Sources
- American literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- West (U.S.) -- History -- 1860-1890 -- Sources
- Women -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
- West (U.S.) -- History -- 1848-1860 -- Sources
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