The Frontiers of Women's Writing : Women's Narratives and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion /

The Frontiers of Women's Writing : Women's Narratives and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Georgi-Findlay, Brigitte
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Indians in literature.
Women, White, in literature.
Women pioneers in literature.
Culture conflict in literature.
Women and literature > West (U.S.)
Literature and anthropology > West (U.S.)
American prose literature > West (U.S.) > History and criticism.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature.
American prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
West (U.S.) > Intellectual life.
United States > Territorial expansion > Historiography.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: American literature, westward expansion, and imperial meaning-making
  • pt. 1. Surveyors of the terrain, 1830-1860: 1. Traveling and settling on the prairies
  • 2. Women on the overland trails
  • pt. 2. Army women, tourists, and mythmakers, 1860-1890: 3. Women and the rhetoric of Indian war
  • 4. Touring and mapping the West
  • pt. 3. Missionaries, reformers, and new women, 1890-1930: 5. The West as a female mission?: white women and the transformation of the American Indian.

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