Antebellum American women writers and the road : American mobilities /
Roberson, Susan L.,1950-
New York ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-186) and index.
"What hath befallen me": sites of contestation in Sarah Beavis's two narratives of her adventures on the Mississippi River -- "With the wind rocking the wagon": women's narratives of the way West -- The politics of mobility: self and nation in-(between) Margaret Fuller's Summer on the lakes -- "A higher call": mobility, spirituality, and social uplift in the narratives of Maria Stewart and Jarena Lee -- Circulations of body and word: women's slave narratives -- Domesticating the road in the wide world of antebellum women's novels -- Touristic writing by antebellum women sightseers -- Jane Cazneau and Margaret Fuller: the politics of mobility, manifest destiny and revolution.
Travelers' writings, American
American prose literature
American literature
Women and literature
Travel writing
Travel in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.