The Resource Claiming the pen : women and intellectual life in the early American South, Catherine Kerrison
Claiming the pen : women and intellectual life in the early American South, Catherine Kerrison
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The item Claiming the pen : women and intellectual life in the early American South, Catherine Kerrison represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
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- Summary
- 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 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 risqu p̌lots 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Isbn
- 9780801454325
- Label
- Claiming the pen : women and intellectual life in the early American South
- Title
- Claiming the pen
- Title remainder
- women and intellectual life in the early American South
- Statement of responsibility
- Catherine Kerrison
- Subject
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- American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism
- Electronic books
- Women -- Books and reading -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century
- Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century
- Women authors, American -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century
- Women -- Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 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 risqu p̌lots 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
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- Midwest
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/collectionName
- hoopla (Digital media service)
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1953-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kerrison, Catherine
- Dewey number
- 305.48/9630975
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women
- Women
- Women authors, American
- Women and literature
- American literature
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Claiming the pen : women and intellectual life in the early American South, Catherine Kerrison
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- MWT12427273
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9780801454325
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- c
- Publisher number
- MWT12427273
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 12427273
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Label
- Claiming the pen : women and intellectual life in the early American South, Catherine Kerrison
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- MWT12427273
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9780801454325
- Isbn Type
- (electronic bk.)
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- c
- Publisher number
- MWT12427273
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 12427273
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
Subject
- American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism
- Electronic books
- Women -- Books and reading -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century
- Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century
- Women authors, American -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century
- Women -- Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
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