Although her study revisits a well-trodden field, Vietto (English, Eastern Illinois U.) succeeds in her goal of challenging commonplaces and in not insisting that current ideologies are lurking in eve
Early American Writings brings together a wide range of writings from the era of colonization of the Americas through the period of confederation in North America and the formation of the new United S
Hannah Webster Foster based The Coquette on the true story of Elizabeth Whitman, an unmarried woman who died in childbirth in New England. Fictionalizing Whitman's experiences in her heroine, Eliza Wh
