Reading and writing ourselves into being the literacy of certain nineteenth-century young women
Record details
- ISBN: 9781593111090
- ISBN: 1593111096
- ISBN: 9781593111083
- ISBN: 1593111088
- ISBN: 1607529394 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781607529392 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xx, 303 p.)
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electronic resource - Publisher: Greenwich, Conn. : Information Age Pub., c2004.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Study of literacy based on a collection of correspondence, the Osborne Family Papers, 1812-1968, located in the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University. Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--Syracuse University. Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Syracuse University. Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-288) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Beginning to contextualize Eliza Wright Osborne in her literacy -- Wherein the problem is set -- Reading the writing of "the particular" : a methodology -- On their own: women reading (mostly) women -- Not on their own: mothers and men prescribe their reading -- Writing well : in search of "the particular" -- "Fixed very nicely indeed!" : a focus on gender -- Endings. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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