TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Sandra Wilson
TI  - The action-adventure heroine: rediscovering an American literary character, 1697-1895 
SN  - 9781621904090
AV  - PS374 .H47 S65 2018
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Knoxville
PB  - The University of Tennessee Press
KW  - Heroines in literature
KW  - Adventure stories, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - American literature
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Protecting Her Own: The Action-Adventure Heroine in Captivity Narratives -- Fighting for Her Country: Female Soldiers and Sailors -- The Female Wanderer: Not a Tale of Seduction -- Saving Damsels -- and Gentlemen -- in Distress: The Female Hero in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Fiction -- (Wo)manifest Destiny: Cross-dressed Female Warriors and Western, Expansion -- Not a True Woman but a Bold One: The Story-Paper Female Heroes of E.D.E.N. Southworth --  Fearless, Independent, and Packing a Gun: The Dime-Novel Female Heroes of Edward L. Wheeler -- The Dime-Novel Female Hero, Queered: Albert W. Aiken's Female Detectives
N2  - "His book probes the action-adventure heroine character in eighteenth and nineteenth-century American literature. Smith analyzes captivity narratives, war narratives, stories of manifest destiny, dime novels, and tales of seduction to reveal a long literary history of female heroes who step into more male-associated roles to win the day. Along the way, Smith examines such authors as Herman Mann, Emerson Bennett, Catherine Maria Sedgewick, Mercy Otis Warren, and Eden Southworth, among others"--
ER  -