Antebellum American Women Writers and the Road: American Mobilities

by Susan L. Roberson

A study of American women's narratives of mobility and travel, this book examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. Concerned with issues of personal and national identity, the study demonstrates how women not only went out on the open road, but participated in public discussions of nationhood in the texts they wrote. Roberson examines a variety of narratives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415883547
• ISBN13: 9780415883542
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"