Executing race : early American women's narratives of race, society, and the law

Author(s)

• Harris, Sharon M.

Bibliographic Information

Executing race : early American women's narratives of race, society, and the law

Sharon M. Harris

Ohio State University Press, c2005

• : pbk

Other Title

Early American women's narratives of race, society, and the law

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-226) and index

Contents of Works

• Executing race : infanticide narratives
• Belinda : the politics of petitions
• Posthumous constructions : the writings of Ann Eliza Bleecker
• Margaretta Bleecker Faugeres : a post-revolutionary "freedom of mind"
• Lost boundaries : carnivalizing race and sexuality in Tabitha Tenney's Female Quixotism
• Lucy Terry : a life of radical resistance
• Appendix : Lucy Terry's obituary

Details

• NCID: BA73618234
• ISBN:
  • 0814209750
  • 0814251315
• LCCN: 2004019147
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Columbus
• Pages/Volumes: x, 240 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS149
  • DC22 : 818/.108099287
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American prose literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : United States -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Law and literature -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Women -- United States -- Intellectual life
  • LCSH : Social problems in literature
  • LCSH : Race in literature
  • LCSH : Law in literature