Writing the Pioneer WomanFocusing on a series of autobiographical texts, published and private, well known and obscure, Writing the Pioneer Woman examines the writing of domestic life on the nineteenth-century North American frontier. In an attempt to determine the meanings found in the pioneer woman's everyday writings -- from records of recipes to descriptions of washing floors -- Janet Floyd explores domestic details in the autobiographical writing of British and Anglo-American female emigrants. |
Contents
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A TRADITION OF PIONEERS | 18 |
PRIVATE ENTERPRISE | 43 |
RECIPES FOR SUCCESS | 76 |
DOMESTICITY AND DIRT | 102 |
A SPACE IN WHICH TO BE IMAGINATIVE | 124 |
PLOTTING THE GOLDEN WEST | 145 |
Anne Langtons Journal and Memoir | 167 |
CONCLUSION | 187 |
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American West Anglo emigrant Anne Anne Langton appears argues argument Backwoods of Canada behavior British Canadian Caroline Caroline Kirkland Catharine Parr Traill century chapter colonial context conventional cooking critics cultural describes diary discussion domestic discourse domestic space edited Elinore Pruitt Stewart Eliza Eliza Farnham emigrant autobiography emigrant narrative emigrant texts emigrant women's emigrant writers Emigrant’s Guide emigration discourse emphasis example experience Farnham female feminine Feminist figure frontier Gender housekeeping housewife husband ideal imagine imperial Jane Marcus Kirkland Kolodny Langton Lawrence Buell Letters literary Lowell Offering Mary Mary Russell Mitford middle-class emigrants migration Mitford Moodie's nineteenth nineteenth-century passage pioneer woman pioneer womanhood portrait position practices Prairie Land produce Pruitt Stewart published reader representation Roughing rural Sarah scene Schlissel sense Sketches social Susanna Moodie tion tradition Traill tropes University Press Upper Canada Victorian western Woman Homesteader women women's autobiography women's writing Zagarell
References to this book
The Recipe Reader: Narratives, Contexts, Traditions Janet Floyd,Laurel Forster No preview available - 2003 |