Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America

by Anne E. Boyd and Anne Boyd Rioux

Book Overview

Before the Civil War, American writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Harriet Beecher Stowe had established authorship as a respectable profession for women. But though they had written some of the most popular and influential novels of the century, they accepted the taboo against female writers, regarding themselves as educators and businesswomen. During and after the Civil War, some women writers began to challenge this view, seeing themselves...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801878756
• ISBN13: 9780801878756
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"