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The Gender of Freedom - Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere (Hardcover, Fifth)
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The Gender of Freedom - Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere (Hardcover, Fifth)
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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. Placing representations of and by women at the
center rather than the margin of the public sphere, this book links
modern forms of political identity to the seemingly private images
of gender displayed prominently in the developing public sphere.
The "fictions of liberalism" explored in this book are those of
marriage and motherhood, sentimental domesticity, and heterosexual
desire-narratives that structure the private realm upon which
liberalism depends for its meaning and value. In a series of bold
theoretical arguments and nuanced readings of literary texts, the
author explores the political force of these private narratives
with chapters on the Antinomian crisis in Puritan Massachusetts,
early national models of gender and marriage in the works of
Charles Brockden Brown and Hannah Webster Foster, infanticide
narratives and nineteenth-century accounts of motherhood in the
work of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lydia Maria Child, and
"re-arranging" marriage in the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
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