Writing the trail : five women's frontier narratives

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Writing the trail : five women's frontier narratives

Title remainder

five women's frontier narratives

Statement of responsibility

Deborah Lawrence

Creator

• Lawrence, Deborah

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

Genre

• Biography
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• History
• Sources
• Biographies

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

Dewey number

978

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

F596

LC item number

.L425 2006

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography