Author: Abby Buchanan Longstreet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Remy St. Remy
Author: Abby Buchanan Longstreet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872
Author: Lyde Cullen Sizer
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction, these women, as well as a larger mosaic of lesser-known writers, used their mainstream writings publicly to make sense of war, womanhood, Union, slavery, republicanism, heroism, and death. Among the authors discussed are Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sara Willis Parton (Fanny Fern), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Although direct political or partisan power was denied to women, these writers actively participated in discussions of national issues through their sentimental novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and letters to the editor. Sizer pays close attention to how these mostly middle-class women attempted to create a "rhetoric of unity," giving common purpose to women despite differences in class, race, and politics. This theme of unity was ultimately deployed to establish a white middle-class standard of womanhood, meant to exclude as well as include.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction, these women, as well as a larger mosaic of lesser-known writers, used their mainstream writings publicly to make sense of war, womanhood, Union, slavery, republicanism, heroism, and death. Among the authors discussed are Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sara Willis Parton (Fanny Fern), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Although direct political or partisan power was denied to women, these writers actively participated in discussions of national issues through their sentimental novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and letters to the editor. Sizer pays close attention to how these mostly middle-class women attempted to create a "rhetoric of unity," giving common purpose to women despite differences in class, race, and politics. This theme of unity was ultimately deployed to establish a white middle-class standard of womanhood, meant to exclude as well as include.
Facing America
Author: Shirley Samuels
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190284552
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War investigates and explains the changing face of America during the Civil War. To conjure a face for the nation, author Shirley Samuels also explores the body of the nation imagined both physically and metaphorically, arguing that the Civil War marks a dramatic shift from identifying the American nation as feminine to identifying it as masculine. Expressions of such a change appear in the allegorical configurations of nineteenth-century American novels, poetry, cartoons, and political rhetoric. Because of the visibility of war's assaults on the male body, masculine vulnerability became such a dominant facet of national life that it practically obliterated the visibility of other vulnerable bodies. The simultaneous advent of photography and the Civil War in the nineteenth century may be as influential as the conjoined rise of the novel and the middle class in the eighteenth century. Both advents herald a changed understanding of how a transformative media can promote new cultural and national identities. Bodies immobilized because of war's practices of wounding and death are also bodies made static for the camera's gaze. The look of shock on the faces of soldiers photographed in order to display their wounds emphasizes the new technology of war literally embodied in the impact of new imploding bullets on vulnerable flesh. Such images mark both the context for and a counterpoint to the "look" of Walt Whitman as he bends over soldiers in their hospital beds. They also provide a way to interpret the languishing male heroes of novels such as August Evans's Macaria (1864), a southern elegy for the sundering of the nation. This book crucially shows how visual iconography affects the shift in postbellum gendered and racialized identifications of the nation.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190284552
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War investigates and explains the changing face of America during the Civil War. To conjure a face for the nation, author Shirley Samuels also explores the body of the nation imagined both physically and metaphorically, arguing that the Civil War marks a dramatic shift from identifying the American nation as feminine to identifying it as masculine. Expressions of such a change appear in the allegorical configurations of nineteenth-century American novels, poetry, cartoons, and political rhetoric. Because of the visibility of war's assaults on the male body, masculine vulnerability became such a dominant facet of national life that it practically obliterated the visibility of other vulnerable bodies. The simultaneous advent of photography and the Civil War in the nineteenth century may be as influential as the conjoined rise of the novel and the middle class in the eighteenth century. Both advents herald a changed understanding of how a transformative media can promote new cultural and national identities. Bodies immobilized because of war's practices of wounding and death are also bodies made static for the camera's gaze. The look of shock on the faces of soldiers photographed in order to display their wounds emphasizes the new technology of war literally embodied in the impact of new imploding bullets on vulnerable flesh. Such images mark both the context for and a counterpoint to the "look" of Walt Whitman as he bends over soldiers in their hospital beds. They also provide a way to interpret the languishing male heroes of novels such as August Evans's Macaria (1864), a southern elegy for the sundering of the nation. This book crucially shows how visual iconography affects the shift in postbellum gendered and racialized identifications of the nation.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Francis Perego Harper
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Catalogue of the Free Public Library of Concord, Mass., Jan. 1, 1875
Author: Concord Free Public Library (Concord, Mass.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
Author:
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
Author: Charles R. Rode
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing
Author: Dale M. Bauer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521669757
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A 2001 Companion providing an overview of the history of writing by women in nineteenth-century America.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521669757
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
A 2001 Companion providing an overview of the history of writing by women in nineteenth-century America.
Dressing up for War
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004489827
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
From the contents: Laurie KAPLAN: How funny I must look with my breeches pulled down to my knees: nurses' memoirs and autobiographies from the Great war. - Peter BUITENHUIS: The perversion of motherhood: the trope of the son at the front. - Renate PETERS: The metamorphoses of Judith in literature and art: war by other means. - Lorrie GOLDENSOHN: Towards a non-combatant war poetry: Jarrell, Moore, Bishop.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004489827
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
From the contents: Laurie KAPLAN: How funny I must look with my breeches pulled down to my knees: nurses' memoirs and autobiographies from the Great war. - Peter BUITENHUIS: The perversion of motherhood: the trope of the son at the front. - Renate PETERS: The metamorphoses of Judith in literature and art: war by other means. - Lorrie GOLDENSOHN: Towards a non-combatant war poetry: Jarrell, Moore, Bishop.
Catalogue of English Prose Fiction
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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