Claiming the pen
Subtitle: women and intellectual life in the early American South
By: Catherine Kerrison.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780801443442
Subjects: Women -- Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.; Women -- Books and reading -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century.; Women authors, American -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century.; Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century.; American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward an intellectual history of early Southern women; title: "The truest kind of breeding" : prescriptive literature in the early South; title: Religion, voice, and authority; title: Reading novels in the South; title: Reading, race, and writing; title: The enduring problem of female authorship and authority.