Race, Reading, and Writing in the Early American South, 1700-1810
FAIN: FT-51856-03
Catherine Kerrison
Villanova University (Villanova, PA 19085-1478)
I seek NEH support to complete the last chapter of my book manuscript which is the first book-length study of the intellectual lives of eighteenth-century southern women. The book examines the influence of advice literature, popular in the eighteenth-century Anglo-Atlantic world, on elite white southern women. The project for which I seek support is the culminating chapter and poses the crucial questions: What did it mean for these women to read this conduct-of-life advice, generated in England, within a plantation slave society? How did the context of their society, whose patriarchal gender relations were inextricably bound up with race, shape their understandings of what they read?
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Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South (Book)Title: Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South
Author: Kerrison, Catherine
Year: 2005
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=9780801456787Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: Ithaca: Cornell University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780801456787