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Women s travel narratives recording journeys north and south along the eastern seaboard and west onto the Ohio frontier enhance our historical understanding of early America. Drawing extensively from primary sources, Traveling Women documents women s role in westward settlement and emphasizes travel as a culture-building event.
Susan Clair Imbarrato closely examines women s accounts of their journeys from 1700 to 1830, including Sarah Kemble Knight s well-known journal of her trip from Boston to New York in 1704 and many lesser-known accounts, such as Sarah Beavis s 1779 journal of her...

Sarah Gray Cary from Boston to Grenada will appeal to readers desiring a rare female perspective on colonial America and plantation life in the Caribbean.

In this ambitious work, Susan Clair Imbarrato examines the changes in the American autobiographical voice as it speaks through the transition from a colonial society to an independent republic.Imbarrato charts the development of early American autobiography from the self-examination mode of the Puritan journal and diary to the self-inventive modes of eighteenth-century writings, which in turn anticipate the more romantic voices of nineteenth-century American literature. She focuses especially on the ways in which first-person narrative displayed an ever-stronger awareness of its own...

A thoroughly expanded and revised edition of the award-winning set, Encyclopedia of American Literature, Revised Edition is an extensive reference work that spans the entire scope of American literature, from the colonial period to the present. Now in five chronological volumes and arranged alphabetically within each volume, this comprehensive encyclopedia includes entries reflecting writers, works, literary movements, and more that high school students or undergraduates are likely to encounter. This major update boasts two new volumes and approximately 1,000 new entries. The majority of the...