Author: Abby Buchanan LongstreetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Remy St. Remy, Or, The Boy in Blue
Author: Abby Buchanan LongstreetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Performing Menken
Author: Renée M. SentillesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521820707
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Performing Menken uses the life experiences of controversial actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken to examine the culture of the Civil War period and what Menken's choices reveal about her period. It explores the roots of the cult of celebrity that emerged from crucible of war. While discussing Menken's racial and ethnic claims and her performance of gender and sexuality, Performing Menken focuses on contemporary use of social categories to explain patterns in America's past and considers why such categories appear to remain important.
Catholic World
Author: The New York Teacher
Author: Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Fall River
Author: Fall River Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
First Supplement to the Catalogue of the Young Men's Association Library of the City of Buffalo
Author: Young Men's Association of the City of Buffalo. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Classified Catalogue of the Saint Louis Mercantile Library
Author: St. Louis Mercantile Library AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Subscription libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872
Author: Lyde Cullen SizerPublisher: 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.
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