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The action-adventure heroine : rediscovering an American literary character, 1697-1895
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"His book probes the action-adventure heroine character in eighteenth and nineteenth-century American literature. Smith analyzes captivity narratives, war narratives, stories of manifest destiny, d...
"His book probes the action-adventure heroine character in eighteenth and nineteenth-century American literature. Smith analyzes captivity narratives, war narratives, stories of manifest destiny, dime novels, and tales of seduction to reveal a long literary history of female heroes who step into more male-associated roles to win the day. Along the way, Smith examines such authors as Herman Mann, Emerson Bennett, Catherine Maria Sedgewick, Mercy Otis Warren, and Eden Southworth, among others"--
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- Creator
- Sandra Wilson Smith
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- First edition
- Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2018]
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- vii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781621904090, 1621904091, 9781621904106, 9781621904106
- OCLC
- on1017600112
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Protecting Her Own: The Action-Adventure Heroine in Captivity Narratives -- ch. 2 Fighting for Her Country: Female Soldiers and Sailors -- ch. 3 The Female Wanderer: Not a Tale of Seduction -- ch. 4 Saving Damsels -- and Gentlemen -- in Distress: The Female Hero in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Fiction -- ch. 5 (Wo)manifest Destiny: Cross-dressed Female Warriors and Western, Expansion -- ch. 6 Not a True Woman but a Bold One: The Story-Paper Female Heroes of E.D.E.N. Southworth -- ch. 7 Fearless, Independent, and Packing a Gun: The Dime-Novel Female Heroes of Edward L. Wheeler -- ch. 8 The Dime-Novel Female Hero, Queered: Albert W. Aiken's Female Detectives