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Rewriting the Republic : = American women's historical fiction, 1824-1869.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rewriting the Republic :/
Reminder of title:	American women's historical fiction, 1824-1869.
Author:	Guilbert, Juliette.
Description:	1 online resource (205 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-05, Section: A, page: 1632.
Subject:	American studies. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780599311008

Rewriting the Republic : = American women's historical fiction, 1824-1869.
Guilbert, Juliette.

Rewriting the Republic :American women's historical fiction, 1824-1869. - 1 online resource (205 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-05, Section: A, page: 1632.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references

During the antebellum decades, historical fiction became one of the most popular and nationalistic of American literary genres. Historical novelists, following in the footsteps of contemporary historians like George Bancroft and Francis Parkman, constructed patriotic fictions that celebrate a progressive model of American history. According to the era's dominant historiography, the colonial past contained the germ from which American liberty, inexorably and providentially, developed. Female historical novelists, however, used the genre to critique and revise prevailing theories of American history, and particularly to provide a commentary on the ways in which American historical movement affected, and was experienced by, women. By examining the works of a number of these authors, this dissertation shows that women writers, although not necessarily out to overthrow the republic, recognized that the notion of historical progress is a highly contingent one; that they sought to move women from the margins to the center of historiography; and that they developed a dissenting vision of the national past. These writers imagined alternative narratives of American history, not only told from a female point of view, but also with an eye to constructing a feminist model of historical development. Some (Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Grace Greenwood, Eliza Lanesford Cushing) accepted that American history was characterized by ever-increasing liberty and enlightenment, but sought to show how historical progress might have darker implications for the disenfranchised (women and Native Americans). Others (Sarah Josepha Hale, Eliza Buckminster Lee) used historical fiction to examine the place of female historical actors in the equations of mainstream historiography, positing a central role for women in moving the engines of progress forward. By the eve of the Civil War, these dissenting visions of American history had moved closer to the mainstream. The historical novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe, with which this dissertation concludes, do not argue for the centrality of female historical actors: they simply assume it.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780599311008Subjects--Topical Terms:

1179345
American studies.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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