The princess of Albemarle : Amélie Rives, author and celebrity at the fin de siècle /
"Tells the life of Amelie Rives, a talented, privileged young woman who was one of the most famous women in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. This account of Rives's substantial literary career and her personal saga provides insights into the limits imposed on and act...
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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2022.
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| سلاسل: | American South series.
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.26526657 |
| الملخص: | "Tells the life of Amelie Rives, a talented, privileged young woman who was one of the most famous women in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. This account of Rives's substantial literary career and her personal saga provides insights into the limits imposed on and actions taken by ambitious, elite young women in the late nineteenth-century South. Censer contextualizes Rives's writings and actions within an American society and culture that were rapidly changing between 1880 and the 1920s and explores the ways in which she challenged and followed the gender conventions of her day"-- |
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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages) : illustrations. |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ردمك: | 0813948207 9780813948201 9780813948195 |