In this fresh approach to the field, Murphy's study moves beyond the well-established what and why of women's literary engagement with the political and religious arenas to connect the details of when, where, and how.
Gretchen Murphy is the Arthur J. Thaman and Wilhelmina Doré Thaman Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire (Duke University Press) and Shadowing the White Man's Burden: U.S. Imperialism and the Problem of the Color Line (New York University Press).