Zoe Desti-Demanti

Early American Women Dramatists, 1780-1860

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Produktbeschreibung

Noting that the variation between the playwrights can be as great as between men and women, and acknowledging that her subjects are limited to a narrow class and race population, Detsi-Diamanti the cultural and historical specificity of women playwrights of the period and the interrelationship between their dramatic efforts and the formation of an American national and literary identity. Her major themes are metaphors of freedom, industrial capitalism, and gender perspective and ideology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 166mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780815333043
• ISBN-10: 0815333048
• Artikelnr.: 21241653

Autorenporträt

Zoe Desti-Demanti

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter II: The Metaphors of Freedom: Republican Ideology and Women's Rights in the Plays by Mercy Otis Warren and Susanna Haswell Rowson
Chapter III: Industrial Capitalism and the Status of Middle-Class Women in Mid-nineteenth-century American Family: Anna Cora Mowatt's Fashion (1845) and Sidney F. Bateman's Self(1856)
Chapter IV: Gender Perspective and Ideology in Frances Wright's Altoif(l819) and Julia W. Howe's Leonora (1857)
Chapter V: Conclusion
Appendix
Works Cited
Index