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072		7	_aHIS036120 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a305.48/9630975 _222
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aKerrison, Catherine _eautore
245	1	0	_aClaiming the Pen : _bWomen and Intellectual Life in the Early American South / _cCatherine Kerrison.
264		1	_aIthaca, NY : _bCornell University Press, _c[2015]
264		4	_c©2015
300			_a1 online resource (288 p.) : _b5 halftones
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tList of Illustrations -- _tAcknowledgments -- _t1. Toward an Intellectual History of Early Southern Women -- _t2. “The Truest Kind of Breeding”: Prescriptive Literature in the Early South -- _t3. Religion, Voice, and Authority -- _t4. Reading Novels in the South -- _t5. Reading, Race, and Writing -- _tConclusion: The Enduring Problem of Female Authorship and Authority -- _tPostscript -- _tAbbreviations -- _tNotes -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aIn 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 risqué 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.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650		0	_aAmerican literature _zSouthern States _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aWomen and literature _zSouthern States _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aWomen authors, American _zSouthern States _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aWomen _xBooks and reading _zSouthern States _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aWomen _zSouthern States _xIntellectual life _y18th century.
650		4	_aSouthern Studies.
650		4	_aU.S. History.
650		4	_aWomens Studies.
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV). _2bisacsh
653			_aFeminist literature, history of the US South, cultural history, southern regional identity, intellectual southern women.
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9780801454332
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801454332
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801454332/original
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