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1. Uncovering the Widow Figure in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Description:: This dissertation examines the legal, economic, and social transformations experienced by American widowed women from the Salem Witchcraft Trials to the Civil War to expand how scholars of literature, the law, and American history define women’s citizenship prior to suffrage. Emphasizing literature’s importance to nineteenth-century nation-building during the era of...
Keyword:: nineteenth-century, American literature, coverture, and widow
Subject:: American literature, Women's studies, and American studies
Creator:: Fritz, Meaghan M.
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14391 and etdadmin_upload_614228