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Explores the representation of female adventurers in contemporary historical fiction by women
Focuses on women’s adventures in the New World, across Canadian, American and Latin American works
Argues for the importance of historical fiction in giving voices to women whose histories have been overlooked
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Book Title: Adventurous Women in Contemporary American Historical Fiction
Book Subtitle: Girls' Own Stories
Authors: Jeannette King
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94126-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94125-3Published: 11 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94128-4Published: 12 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-94126-0Published: 10 March 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 164
Topics: Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature, Contemporary Literature, North American Literature, Latin American/Caribbean Literature, Comparative Literature