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,Revisiting the Canon, Rewriting History: Sena Jeter Naslund’s ,r Essex which was Melville’s own inspiration. Relating the novel’s protagonist Una to the historical and geographical context provided by contemporary sources, this chapter suggests that her extraordinary experience of cross-dressing aboard a whaling ship is not as unique as it might appear.

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,Domesticating the Wilderness, a Woman’s Mission: Jane Smiley, ,en were expected to take on roles considered to be masculine in order to survive. Like Una, Lidie has to resort to cross-dressing, and the novel explores ideas of sexual difference in her lifetime, while also touching on the racial conflict which represents another challenge to Una.

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Women and an Uncivil War: Paulette Jiles, , situation. Although the issue of slavery is acknowledged to be a prime factor in the war, the novel suggests that the differences between North and South have many other dimensions, including ideas about gender difference.

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Adventures of Body and Soul: Audrey Thomas, ,ite of her courage, the gender stereotypes of the period effectively destroyed her life by removing her choices. Thomas uses a range of narrative voices, excluding Isobel’s own, to convey those forces operating against her.

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Home and Away: Jane Urquhart, ,sent, of the indigenous people and the incomers, and interweaves Celtic myth with that of the First Nations to explore the many meanings of being home or away. Highly metaphoric in style, the novel nevertheless is grounded in a harsh series of historical realities.

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Book 2022iters engage with the literature of the past, including the American canon of male fiction which dominated literary history before the intervention of feminist scholars. The book begins with an introduction to the history of historical fiction and provides a theoretical, historical and geographical context for the novels themselves.

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