The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield
The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield

Author: Unca Eliza Winkfield

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2000-10-20

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9781551112480

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When it first appeared in 1767, The Female American was called a "sort of second Robinson Crusoe; full of wonders." Indeed, The Female American is an adventure novel about an English protagonist shipwrecked on a deserted isle, where survival requires both individual ingenuity and careful negotiations with visiting local Indians. But what most distinguishes Winkfield's novel is her protagonist, a woman who is of mixed race. Though the era's popular novels typically featured women in the confining contexts of the home and the bourgeois marriage market, Winkfield's novel portrays an autonomous and mobile heroine living alone in the wilds of the New World, independently interacting with both Native Americans and visiting Europeans. Moreover, The Female American is one of the earliest novelistic efforts to articulate an American identity, and more specifically to investigate what that identity might promise for women. Along with discussion of authorship issues, the Broadview edition contains excerpts from English and American source texts. This is the only edition available.

The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield
The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield

Author: Unca Eliza Winkfield

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2000-10-20

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1770481281

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When it first appeared in 1767, The Female American was called a "sort of second Robinson Crusoe; full of wonders." Indeed, The Female American is an adventure novel about an English protagonist shipwrecked on a deserted isle, where survival requires both individual ingenuity and careful negotiations with visiting local Indians. But what most distinguishes Winkfield's novel is her protagonist, a woman who is of mixed race. Though the era's popular novels typically featured women in the confining contexts of the home and the bourgeois marriage market, Winkfield's novel portrays an autonomous and mobile heroine living alone in the wilds of the New World, independently interacting with both Native Americans and visiting Europeans. Moreover, The Female American is one of the earliest novelistic efforts to articulate an American identity, and more specifically to investigate what that identity might promise for women. Along with discussion of authorship issues, the Broadview edition contains excerpts from English and American source texts. This is the only edition available.

The Female American - Second Edition
The Female American - Second Edition

Author: Unca Eliza Winkfield

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2014-09-10

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1554810965

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When it first appeared in 1767, this novel was called a “sort of second Robinson Crusoe; full of wonders.” Indeed, The Female American is an adventure novel about an English protagonist shipwrecked on a deserted isle, where survival requires both individual ingenuity and careful negotiations with visiting local Indians. But what most distinguishes Winkfield’s novel is her protagonist, a woman who is of mixed race. Though the era’s popular novels typically featured women in the confining contexts of the home and the bourgeois marriage market, Winkfield’s novel portrays an autonomous and mobile heroine living alone in the wilds of the New World, independently interacting with both Native Americans and visiting Europeans. The Female American is also one of the earliest novelistic efforts to articulate an American identity. This second edition has been updated throughout and includes a greatly expanded selection of historical materials on castaway narratives and on the cultural context of colonial America.

The Female American; Or, the Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield. Compiled by Herself. In Two Volumes. .; 1
The Female American; Or, the Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield. Compiled by Herself. In Two Volumes. .; 1

Author: Unca Eliza Winkfield

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2021-09-10

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9781015341098

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Women’s Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire
Women’s Narratives of the Early Americas and the Formation of Empire

Author: Mary McAleer Balkun

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-08

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 113754323X

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The essays in this collection examine the connections between the forces of empire and women's lives in the early Americas, in particular the ways their narratives contributed to empire formation. Focusing on the female body as a site of contestation, the essays describe acts of bravery, subversion, and survival expressed in a variety of genres, including the saga, letter, diary, captivity narrative, travel narrative, verse, sentimental novel, and autobiography. The volume also speaks to a range of female experience, across the Americas and across time, from the Viking exploration to early nineteenth-century United States, challenging scholars to reflect on the implications of early American literature even to the present day.

The Female American; Or, the Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield. Compiled by Herself. in Two Volumes. ... of 2; Volume 2
The Female American; Or, the Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield. Compiled by Herself. in Two Volumes. ... of 2; Volume 2

Author: UNCA ELIZA. WINKFIELD

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-19

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781379643708

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T066366 A novel. With nine pages of advertisements at the end of volume 2 and an announcement of increased rates for seven circulating libraries at the end of volume 1. London: printed for Francis Noble; and John Noble, 1767. 2v.; 12°