writings on authorship by American women of the nineteenth century
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Boyd, Anne E. > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2009
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, literatuur, romans, canons, 19e eeuw
- Description
- This book presents a spectrum of nineteenth—century American women's writings on the themes of authorship and creativity. These works reflect the fears, desires, and motivations of female authors, as well as the opportunities and obstacles they encountered as professional writers. Boyd includes representative samples from a diverse range of writers. These writings, some of which are reprinted here for the first time, challenge prevailing notions about women and authorship in the nineteenth century and shed light on the relationship between women's lives as writers and their evolving roles in the larger, male—dominated literary community.