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Author Cima, Gay Gibson, 1948-

Title Early American women critics : performance, religion, race / Gay Gibson Cima
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 241 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER I Colonial Women Critics: Performing Religion, Race, Possession, and Pornography; CHAPTER II Revolutionary Women Critics: Performing Rational Christianity, Patriotism, and Race; CHAPTER III Republican Women Critics: Performing Christian Activism, American Culture, and Race; Index
Summary Early American Women Critics provides a new history and analysis of the commentaries, written and spoken, circulated by early American women between the First and Second Great Religious Awakenings (1730s 1840s). Cima introduces readers to where, how, and why women critics launched their commentaries on race, religion, gender, and nation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Women critics -- United States -- History
Critical theory.
critical theories (dialectical critiques)
critical theory (sociological concept)
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
Critical theory
Women critics
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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