Claiming the Pen : : Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South / / Catherine Kerrison.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Kerrison, Catherine,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 5 halftones

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 wome...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Toward an Intellectual History of Early Southern Women
• 2. "The Truest Kind of Breeding": Prescriptive Literature in the Early South
• 3. Religion, Voice, and Authority
• 4. Reading Novels in the South
• 5. Reading, Race, and Writing
• Conclusion: The Enduring Problem of Female Authorship and Authority
• Postscript
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Index