Beyond Control: writing the desert landscape

Janet Floyd

King's College London

I am Professor of American Literature and Culture at King's College London. I have published widely on the nineteenth-century West, including two monographs, Writing the Pioneer Woman (2002) and Claims and Speculations (2012), and numerous articles on periodical culture, and women's writing of emigrant experience. 

Abstract

I’m interested in considering how far it was possible, during the late nineteenth century, to move outside the rhetoric of ‘manifest destiny’ or the Naturalist language of ‘forces’ in order to examine the interplay... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Janet Floyd (King's College London)

Topic Area

Feminist Critical Regionalism and the Climate of Western Literary Studies

Session

S3 » Seminar 3: Feminist Critical Regionalism and the Climate of Western Literary Studies (15:45 - Thursday, 22nd March, Boardroom East)

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