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. |
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Contents
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| 7 | |
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 |
Conclusion | 187 |
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References to this book
The Recipe Reader: Narratives, Contexts, Traditions Janet Floyd,Laurel Forster No preview available - 2003 |
Bibliographic information
| Title | Writing the Pioneer Woman |
| Author | Janet Floyd |
| Publisher | University of Missouri Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0826262651, 9780826262653 |
| Length | 228 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / Women Authors Social Science / Emigration & Immigration |
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