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- 429grams
- Subjects
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- Pages
- 288
- Size
- 22.6 x 15.1 x 1 cm
- Topic
- History
- Book Title
- Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early Ameri
- ISBN
- 9780801456787
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type
- Textbook
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Subject
- History
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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In 1711, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy's plea for a book; a century later, Lady Jean Skipwith placed an order that sent the Virginia bookseller Joseph Swan scurrying to please. These vignettes bracket a century of change in white southern women's lives. Claiming the Pen offers the first intellectual history of early southern women. It situates their reading and writing within the literary culture of the wider Anglo-Atlantic world, thus far understood to be a masculine province, even as they inhabited the limited, provincial social circles of the plantation South. Catherine Kerrison uncovers a new realm of female education in which conduct-of-life advice-both the dry pedantry of sermons and the risque plots of novels-formed the core reading program. Women, she finds, learned to think and write by reading prescriptive literature, not Greek and Latin classics, in impromptu home classrooms, rather than colleges and universities, and from kin and friends, rather than schoolmates and professors. Kerrison also reveals that southern women, in their willingness to take up the pen and so claim new rights, seized upon their racial superiority to offset their gender inferiority. In depriving slaves of education, southern women claimed literacy as a privilege of their whiteness, and perpetuated and strengthened the repressive institutions of slavery.
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Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South
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Paperback
Language
English
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History
Publication Year
2015
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Textbook
Number of Pages
288 Pages
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229mm
Item Width
152mm
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