Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)

by Angela Vietto (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $151.61

  Argues that women writers in Revolutionary America viewed civic participation as a key component of the social role of authorship, and used authorship as a means to contribute publicly to the evolving creation of the new nation's political and social identities. This book examines an often overlooked moment in American women's literary history.