Antebellum American women writers and the road : American mobilities /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Roberson, Susan L., 1950-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2011.
Series:	Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 5.
Subjects:	Travelers' writings, American > History and criticism. American prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism. American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century. Travel writing > History > 19th century. Travel in literature. Place (Philosophy) in literature.

Table of Contents:

"What hath befallen me" : sites of contestation in Sarah Beavis's two narratives of her adventures on the Mississippi River
"With the wind rocking the wagon" : women's narratives of the way West
The politics of mobility : self and nation in-(between) Margaret Fuller's Summer on the lakes
"A higher call" : mobility, spirituality, and social uplift in the narratives of Maria Stewart and Jarena Lee
Circulations of body and word : women's slave narratives
Domesticating the road in the wide world of antebellum women's novels
Touristic writing by antebellum women sightseers
Jane Cazneau and Margaret Fuller : the politics of mobility, manifest destiny and revolution.