The Morgesons

The Morgesons PDF Author: Elizabeth Stoddard
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

The Morgesons

The Morgesons PDF Author: Elizabeth Stoddard
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

The Morgesons

The Morgesons PDF Author: Elizabeth Stoddard
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Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Love and Depth in the American Novel

Love and Depth in the American Novel PDF Author: Ashley C. Barnes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813944180
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"By examining classic nineteenth-century American novels, this book proposes a new approach to reading that reconciles historicist and ethical approaches to literature"--

Identifying Marks

Identifying Marks PDF Author: Jennifer Putzi
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082032812X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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What we know of the marked body in nineteenth-century American literature and culture often begins with The Scarlet Letter's Hester Prynne and ends with Moby Dick's Queequeg. This study looks at the presence of marked men and women in a more challenging array of canonical and lesser-known works, including exploration narratives, romances, and frontier novels. Jennifer Putzi shows how tattoos, scars, and brands can function both as stigma and as emblem of healing and survival, thus blurring the borderline between the biological and social, the corporeal and spiritual. Examining such texts as Typee, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Captivity of the Oatman Girls, The Morgesons, Iola Leroy, and Contending Forces, Putzi relates the representation of the marked body to significant events, beliefs, or cultural shifts, including tattooing and captivity, romantic love, the patriarchal family, and abolition and slavery. Her particular focus is on both men and women of color, as well as white women-in other words, bodies that did not signify personhood in the nineteenth century and thus by their very nature were grotesque. Complicating the discourse on agency, power, and identity, these texts reveal a surprisingly complex array of representations of and responses to the marked body--some that are a product of essentialist thinking about race and gender identities and some that complicate, critique, or even rebel against conventional thought.

The Novel of Purpose

The Novel of Purpose PDF Author: Amanda Claybaugh
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150172701X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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In the nineteenth century, Great Britain and the United States shared a single literary marketplace that linked the reform movements, as well as the literatures, of the two nations. The writings of transatlantic reformers—antislavery, temperance, and suffrage activists—gave novelists a new sense of purpose and prompted them to invent new literary forms. The result was a distinctively Anglo-American realism, in which novelists, conceiving of themselves as reformers, sought to act upon their readers—and, through their readers, the world. Indeed, reform became so predominant that many novelists borrowed from reformist writings even though they were skeptical of reform itself. Among them are some of the century's most important authors: Anne Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Mark Twain. The Novel of Purpose proposes a new way of understanding social reform in Great Britain and the United States. Amanda Claybaugh offers readings that connect reformist agitation to the formal features of literary works and argues for a method of transatlantic study that attends not only to nations, but also to the many groups that collaborate across national boundaries.

The Garies and Their Friends

The Garies and Their Friends PDF Author: Frank J. Webb
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Originally published in London in 1857 and never before available in paperback, The Garies and Their Friends is the second novel published by an African American and the first to chronicle the experience of free blacks in the pre-Civil War northeast. The novel anticipates themes that were to become important in later African American fiction, including miscegenation and 'passing, ' and tells the story of the Garies and their friends, the Ellises, a 'highly respectable and industrious coloured family.'

The Story of a Modern Woman

The Story of a Modern Woman PDF Author: Ella Hepworth Dixon
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Two Men

Two Men PDF Author: Elizabeth Stoddard
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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"The Morgesons" and Other Writings, Published and Unpublished

Author: Elizabeth Stoddard
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081220560X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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"Stoddard was, next to Melville and Hawthorne, the most strikingly original voice in the mid-nineteenth-century American novel, a voice . . . that ought to gain a more sympathetic and perceptive hearing in our time than in her own."—from the Introduction The centerpiece of this volume is The Morgesons (1862), one of the few outstanding feminist bildungsromanae of that century. Additional selections include arresting short stories and provocative journalistic essays/reviews, plus a number of letters and manuscript journals that have never before been published. The texts are fully edited and documented.

The Morgesons

The Morgesons PDF Author: Elizabeth Stoddard
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781340821142
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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