Author: Maria Jane M'Intosh
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The lofty and the lowly; or, Good in all, and none all good
Author: Maria Jane M'Intosh
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 330
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We Mean to Be Counted
Author: Elizabeth R. Varon
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807866083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely excluded from public life. With this book, Elizabeth Varon effectively challenges such historical assumptions. Using a wide array of sources, she demonstrates that throughout the antebellum period, white Southern women of the slaveholding class were important actors in the public drama of politics. Through their voluntary associations, legislative petitions, presence at political meetings and rallies, and published appeals, Virginia's elite white women lent their support to such controversial reform enterprises as the temperance movement and the American Colonization Society, to the electoral campaigns of the Whig and Democratic Parties, to the literary defense of slavery, and to the causes of Unionism and secession. Against the backdrop of increasing sectional tension, Varon argues, these women struggled to fulfill a paradoxical mandate: to act both as partisans who boldly expressed their political views and as mediators who infused public life with the "feminine" virtues of compassion and harmony.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807866083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely excluded from public life. With this book, Elizabeth Varon effectively challenges such historical assumptions. Using a wide array of sources, she demonstrates that throughout the antebellum period, white Southern women of the slaveholding class were important actors in the public drama of politics. Through their voluntary associations, legislative petitions, presence at political meetings and rallies, and published appeals, Virginia's elite white women lent their support to such controversial reform enterprises as the temperance movement and the American Colonization Society, to the electoral campaigns of the Whig and Democratic Parties, to the literary defense of slavery, and to the causes of Unionism and secession. Against the backdrop of increasing sectional tension, Varon argues, these women struggled to fulfill a paradoxical mandate: to act both as partisans who boldly expressed their political views and as mediators who infused public life with the "feminine" virtues of compassion and harmony.
The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South
Author: Katharine A. Burnett
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000605345
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 623
Book Description
The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South provides a collection of vibrant and multidisciplinary essays by scholars from a wide range of backgrounds working in the field of U.S. southern literary studies. With topics ranging from American studies, African American studies, transatlantic or global studies, multiethnic studies, immigration studies, and gender studies, this volume presents a multi-faceted conversation around a wide variety of subjects in U.S. southern literary studies. The Companion will offer a comprehensive overview of the southern literary studies field, including a chronological history from the U.S. colonial era to the present day and theoretical touchstones, while also introducing new methods of reconceiving region and the U.S. South as inherently interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional. The volume will therefore be an invaluable tool for instructors, scholars, students, and members of the general public who are interested in exploring the field further but will also suggest new methods of engaging with regional studies, American studies, American literary studies, and cultural studies.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000605345
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 623
Book Description
The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South provides a collection of vibrant and multidisciplinary essays by scholars from a wide range of backgrounds working in the field of U.S. southern literary studies. With topics ranging from American studies, African American studies, transatlantic or global studies, multiethnic studies, immigration studies, and gender studies, this volume presents a multi-faceted conversation around a wide variety of subjects in U.S. southern literary studies. The Companion will offer a comprehensive overview of the southern literary studies field, including a chronological history from the U.S. colonial era to the present day and theoretical touchstones, while also introducing new methods of reconceiving region and the U.S. South as inherently interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional. The volume will therefore be an invaluable tool for instructors, scholars, students, and members of the general public who are interested in exploring the field further but will also suggest new methods of engaging with regional studies, American studies, American literary studies, and cultural studies.
Bibliotheca Probata
Author: Daniel Dana, jr. (Firm)
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Woman's Fiction
Author: Nina Baym
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252062858
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This reissue of the pioneering and standard book on antebellum women's domestic novels contains a new introduction situating the book in the context of important recent developments in the study of women's writing. Nina Baym considers 130 novels by 48 women, focusing on the works of a dozen especially productive and successful writers. Woman's Fiction is a major-work in nineteenth-century literature, reexamining changes in the literary canon and the meaning of sentimentalism, while responding to current critical discussions of 'the body' in literary texts. ''Informative and stimulating. . . . Nina Baym has undertaken a systematic analysis of that nineteenth-century American fiction normally dismissed as at best trivially sentimental. . . . Woman's Fiction offers a fresh perspective on a largely forgotten body of literature.'' -- American Literature''Perceives in the fiction of, by, and for women in the period stated a popular genre that made a particular kind of feminist avowal for the times, one that rejected the concept of helplessness and urged the application of intelligence and courage to trying situations. . . . Baym marshals ample supporting evidence from the outpouring of such fiction.'' - ALA Booklist
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252062858
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This reissue of the pioneering and standard book on antebellum women's domestic novels contains a new introduction situating the book in the context of important recent developments in the study of women's writing. Nina Baym considers 130 novels by 48 women, focusing on the works of a dozen especially productive and successful writers. Woman's Fiction is a major-work in nineteenth-century literature, reexamining changes in the literary canon and the meaning of sentimentalism, while responding to current critical discussions of 'the body' in literary texts. ''Informative and stimulating. . . . Nina Baym has undertaken a systematic analysis of that nineteenth-century American fiction normally dismissed as at best trivially sentimental. . . . Woman's Fiction offers a fresh perspective on a largely forgotten body of literature.'' -- American Literature''Perceives in the fiction of, by, and for women in the period stated a popular genre that made a particular kind of feminist avowal for the times, one that rejected the concept of helplessness and urged the application of intelligence and courage to trying situations. . . . Baym marshals ample supporting evidence from the outpouring of such fiction.'' - ALA Booklist
Catalogues
Author: D. Appleton and Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Neither Black Nor White Yet Both
Author: Werner Sollors
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019505282X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
In this study of "inter-racial" literature, the author examines: why, in the US, a "white" woman can give birth to a "black" baby, but a "black" woman will never give birth to a "white" baby; what makes racial "passing" different from social mobility; and how "miscegenation" is presented as incest
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019505282X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
In this study of "inter-racial" literature, the author examines: why, in the US, a "white" woman can give birth to a "black" baby, but a "black" woman will never give birth to a "white" baby; what makes racial "passing" different from social mobility; and how "miscegenation" is presented as incest
The Vicar of Wakefield
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Africa and the American Flag
Author: Andrew Hull Foote
Publisher:
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Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Harry Muir: a Story of Scottish Life
Author: Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description