Opis

Contents

Christina Samson and Birte Bös, Introduction                  5

Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti, The construction of women’s Quaker identity. A case study: Margaret Fell                      15

Christina Samson, Discovering colonial India: The construal of discursive social identities in women’s travel writings                37

Polina Shvanyukova, Constructing a socially acceptable female identity: The case of nineteenth-century advice manuals for women                     59

Elisabetta Cecconi, From “British Subjects” to “American People”: Transformation of national identities in a corpus of American newspapers (1764-1783)               85

Isabella Martini, A denial of identity. The Armenian genocide in the letters to the editor of The Times 1914-1926                      115

Roberta Facchinetti, The building of English language identity through dictionaries and grammar books: Two case studies                     137

Marina Dossena, From The Magnificent Seven to The Hateful Eight: Labels, lyrics and (group) identity construction in Western movie songs                 155

Letizia Vezzosi, Pronouns in Dickinson’s poetry as a means of constructing a poetic  self       183

Francesca Ditifeci and Ilde E. D. Kantzas, Lost identity in the Bible              209