| FT-51856-03 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Catherine Kerrison | Race, Reading, and Writing in the Early American South, 1700-1810 | 6/1/2003 - 7/31/2003 | $5,000.00 | Catherine | | Kerrison | | | | Villanova University | Villanova | PA | 19085-1478 | USA | 2003 | U.S. History | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
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? |