The action-adventure heroine : rediscovering an American literary character, 1697-1895 /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Knoxville :
University of Tennessee Press,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | vii, 280 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781621904090 1621904091 |