Routledge - Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America

Explore the diverse writings of early American women through this scholarly study from Routledge. Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America offers a synthetic approach to the literature produced by women during the early United States period. This work examines how female writers navigated a changing landscape where the definitions of both Author and Woman were in flux. Angela Vietto investigates the strategic choices these writers made to build their identities. By looking at a broad spectrum of genres, the book explains how women writers used existing ideas of womanhood to justify their roles as authors. This study provides a deep look at the dynamic relationship between gender and writing in a transformative era of American history. It is an essential resource for those studying literary theory, early American history, and gender studies.