Smith, Sandra Wilson, <br/><br/>
The action-adventure heroine :  rediscovering an American literary character, 1697-1895 / 
Sandra Wilson Smith. 
 - First edition. 
 - vii, 280 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781621904090 1621904091 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017057797 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Heroines in literature.<br/>Adventure stories, American--History and criticism.<br/>American literature--History and criticism.--18th century<br/>American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS374 .H47  / S65 2018