Preliminary Works Cited

Preliminary Works Cited

            My focus on methodology has been to focus on the performative aspect of Lucy Brewer’s cross-dressing when dressing as a soldier in The Female Marine. From my research so far I’ve managed to garner the text mimics other female autobiographies published at the time, so understanding my work within the history of American literature will be particularly important and I’ve managed to find several articles discussing women’s role in early American literature. Deborah Sampson, a (real) woman who passed as a male soldier during the revolutionary war, is directly referenced in the text as the source for how Brewer learns to pass so knowing that story becomes pretty crucial.  I also need to read further on the historically and place her cross-dressing within queer theory that engages with the performative description of gender roles as expressed by Butler and Foucault, from which there is almost a limitless poor of resource. I would like to try and get at my own explanation as to why Brewer’s gender-bending did not hurt the texts popularity and seemed so acceptable.

Key Search Terms:

True Womanhood

Deborah Sampson

Judith Butler

The Female Marine

Cross-dressing

Performativity

Daniel A. Cohen

Lisa Logan

American Manuscripts

Early American Novel

Brewster, Claire. “Women and the Spanish-American Wars of Independence: An Overview” Feminist Review 79 (2005) 20-35. Jstor. Web. 24 Sept. 2010.

Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter. New York: Routledge, 1993. Print.

---. Gender Trouble. New York: Routledge, 1990. Print.

Cohen, Daniel A. "'The Female Marine' in an Era of Good Feelings: Cross-Dressing and the 'Genius' of        Nathaniel Coverly, Jr." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society: A Journal of American History and Culture Through 1876 103.2 (1993): 359-395. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 24 Sept. 2010.

Cohen, Daniel A. The Female Marine and Related Works: Narratives of Cross-Dressing and         Urban Vice in America’s Early Republic. Boston: University of Massachusetts, 1997. Print. 

Cohen, Daniel A. “Heroic Women Found: Transgressive Feminism, Popular Biography, and the ‘Tragical Deaths of Beautiful Females’.” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society: A Journal of American History and Culture Through 1876 109.1 (1999): 51-97. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 17 Sept. 2010.

Davidson, Cathy N. Revolution and the Word: the Rise of the Novel in America.  Oxford (GB): Oxford UP, 2004.  Print.

Eldred, Janet C, and Peter Mortensen. Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. Print.

Foucault, Michael. The History of Sexuality. New York: Vintage, 1990. Print.

Garber, Marjorie B. Vested Interests: Cross-dressing & Cultural Anxiety. New York: Routledge,   1992. Print.

Hawkes, Gail L. "Dressing-up--cross-dressing and sexual dissonance." Journal of Gender Studies 4.3 (1995): 261-70. Academic Search Premier. Web. 24 Sept. 2010.

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Klepp, Susan E. Revolutionary Conceptions: Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in America, 1760-1820. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Print.

Lane, Richard J, and Jay Wurts. In Search of the Woman Warrior: Four Mythical Archetypes for   Modern Women. Boston, Mass: Element, 1998. Print.

Leduc, Guyonne. "The Adventure of Cross-Dressing: Hannah Snell (1723-1792), a Woman Soldier." Adventure: An Eighteenth-Century Idiom: Essays on the Daring and the Bold as a Pre-Modern Medium. 145-167. New York, NY: AMS, 2009. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Web. 3 Dec. 2010.

Logan, Lisa M. “Columbia’s Daughters in Drag; or, Cross-Dressing, Collaboration, and Authorship in Early American Novels.” Feminist Inverventions in Early American Studies. Ed. Mary C. Carruth. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2006. 240-52. Print. 

Mann, Herman. The Female Review: Life of Deborah Sampson: The Female Soldier in the War of Revolution. American women: images and realities. New York: Arno Press, 1972. Print.

Mayer, Marianna, and Julek Heller. Women Warriors: Myths and Legends of Heroic Women.New York: Morrow Junior Books, 1999. Print.

Medlicott Jr., Alexander. “The Legend of Lucy Brewer: An Early American Novel.” The New England Quarterly. 39.4 (1966): 461-473. Web.          

Mulford, Carla. “Writing Women in early American Studies: On Canons, Feminist Critique, and the Work of Writing Women into History.” Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 26.1 (2007): 107-18. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 13 Sept. 2010.

Perry, Elizabeth M. and Rosemary A. Joyce, “Past Performance: The Archeology of Gender as Influenced by the Work of Judith Butler.”. Butler Matters: Judith Butler's Impact on Feminist and Queer Studies. Ed. Breen, Margaret S, and Warren J. Blumenfeld. Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2005. Print.

Salamon, Gayle. Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Print.

Smith, Merril D. Women's Roles in Eighteenth-Century America. Santa Barbara, Calif: Greenwood, 2010. Print. 

Vietto, Angela. Women and Authorship in Revolutionary America. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 2005. Print

Weyler, Karen A. “An Actor in the Drama of Revolution: Deborah Sampson, Print, and Performance in the Creation of Celebrity.” Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies. 183-93. Print.