The First Woman in the Republic
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Carolyn L. Karcher is Professor of English, American Studies, and Women’s Studies at Temple University.
Illustrations ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xi
Chronology xix
Abbreviations xxvi
Prologue: A Passion for Books 1
1. The Author of Hobomok 16
2. Rebels and "Rivals": Self Portraits of a Conflicted Young Artist 38
3. The Juvenile Miscellany: The Creation of an American Children's Literature 57
4. A Marriage of True Minds: Espousing the Indian Cause 80
5. Blighted Prospects: Indian Fiction and Domestic Reality 101
6. The Frugal Housewife: Financial Worries and Domestic Advice 126
7. Children's Literature and Antislavery: Conservative Medium, Radical Message 151
8. "The First Woman in the Republic": An Antislavery Baptism 173
9. An Antislavery Marriage: Careers at Cross Purposes 195
10. The Conditions of Women: Double Binds, Unresolved Conflicts 214
11. Schisms, Personal and Political 249
12. The National Anti-Slavery Standard: Family Newspaper or Factional Organ? 267
13. Letters from New York: The Invention of a New Literary Genre 295
14. Sexuality and Marriage in Fact and Fiction 320
15. The Progress of Religious Ideas: A "Pilgrimage of Pennance" 356
16. Autumnal Leaves: Reconsecrated Partnerships, Personal and Political 384
17. The Example of John Brown 416
18. Child's Civil War 443
19. Visions of a Reconstructed America: The Freedmen's Book and A Romance of the Republic 487
20. A Radical Old Age 532
21. Aspirations of the World 573
Afterword 608
Notes 617
Works of Lydia Maria Child 757
Index 773
Reihe/Serie | New Americanists |
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Zusatzinfo | 10 b&w photographs |
Verlagsort | North Carolina |
Sprache | englisch |
Gewicht | 1474 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 0-8223-2163-7 / 0822321637 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-2163-7 / 9780822321637 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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