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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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2022.
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| Edice: | American South series.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.26526657 |
| Shrnutí: | "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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| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (xiii, 313 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0813948207 9780813948201 9780813948195 |