Overview
In a sweeping reassessment of early American literature, The Gender of Freedom explores the workings of the literary public sphere-from its colonial emergence through the antebellum flourishing of sentimentalism-and places representations of and by women at the center rather than the margin of the public sphere and the politics of liberalism.
- | Author: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
- | Publisher: Stanford University Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 13, 2004
- | Number of Pages: 328 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0804729417
- | ISBN-13: 9780804729413
