Out in Public
Subtitle: Configurations of Women's Bodies in Nineteenth-Century America
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: November 8, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780807829042
Subjects: Women's studies; c 1800 to c 1900; Social aspects; History; Women's Studies - General; Sociology; United States - 19th Century; Literary Criticism; USA; Women's Studies - History; Social Science / Women's Studies; nineteenth-century woman; women's public embodiment; Mary Baker Eddy; Sojourner Truth; Ida B. Wells; Sarah Josepha Hale; Godey's Lady's Book; freak shows; scientific writing; tall tales; citizenship rhetoric; the business of publishing; popular visual images of athletic women; Christian Science; Feminist; Women Authors; 19th century; Body, Human; Physiology; Symbolic aspects; United States; Women
First sentence: At the midpoint of actress and author Anna Cora Mowatt's (1819-71) Autobiography of an Actress; or, Eight Years on the Stage (1853), Mowatt relates a horrific incident occurring backstage in a London theater: [A] shriek, wild and ear-piercing, broke upon the startled crowd.