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   Women-Writers of the Nineteenth Century » Read Now

   by Marjory A. Bald. 288 pgs.

   Collections: Literature, Entire Library

   ...OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY WOMEN-WRITERS OF THE...contribution made by women to Nineteenth Century literature...treatise. The writers selected...Romantic writers of the...
   
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   Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook » Read Now

   by Denise D. Knight, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 540 pgs.

   Collections: Literature, Entire Library

   As the American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, the influence of women writers of the nineteenth century has been reevaluated. The first book of its kind, this reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 nineteenth-century American women...

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   As the American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, the influence of women writers of the nineteenth century has been reevaluated. The first book of its kind, this reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 nineteenth-century American women writers, such as Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Emma Lazarus, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the critical studies examining the writer's works, and a bibliography of works for further consultation.

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   The (Other) American Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers » Read Now

   by Joyce W. Warren. 314 pgs.

   Collections: Literature, Entire Library

   ...literature, and nineteenth- century American women writers, who focused on...Queens College in nineteenth- century American women writers, which I called...organized a...
   
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   Nineteenth-Century Women Writers of the English-Speaking World » Read Now

   by Rhoda B. Nathan. 276 pgs.

   Collections: Literature, Entire Library

   ...The American Victorian...Destiny: Women Writers and the Holocaust...Heinemann Nineteenth-Century Women Writers...given at the Nineteenth Century Women Writers...
   
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   We Are Coming: The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth-Century Black Women » Read Now

   by Shirley Wilson Logan. 262 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   Shirley Wilson Logan analyzes the distinctive rhetorical features in the persuasive discourse of nineteenth-century black women, concentrating on the public discourse of club and church women from 1880 until 1900.

   Logan develops each chapter in this illustrated study around a feature of public...

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   Shirley Wilson Logan analyzes the distinctive rhetorical features in the persuasive discourse of nineteenth-century black women, concentrating on the public discourse of club and church women from 1880 until 1900.

   Logan develops each chapter in this illustrated study around a feature of public address as best exemplified in the oratory of a particular woman speaker of the era. She analyzes not only speeches but also editorials, essays, and letters.

   Logan first focuses on the prophetic oratory of Maria Stewart, the first American-born black woman to speak publicly. Turning to Frances Harper, she considers speeches that argue for common interests between divergent communities. And she demonstrates that central to the antilynching rhetoric of Ida Wells is the concept of "presence, " or the tactic of enhancing certain selected elements of the presentation.

   In her discussion of Fannie Barrier Williams and Anna Cooper, Logan shows that when speaking to which club women and black clergymen, both Williams and,Cooper employ what Kenneth Burke called identification. To analyze the rhetoric of Victoria Matthews, she applies Carolyn Miller's modification of Lloyd Bitzer's concept of the rhetorical situation.

   Logan also examines the discourse of women associated with the black Baptist women's movement and those participating in college-affiliated conferences.

   The book includes an appendix with little-known speeches and essays by Anna Julia Cooper, Selena Sloan Butler, Lucy Wilmot Smith, Mary V. Cook, Adella Hunt Logan, Victoria Earle Matthews, Lucy C. Laney, and Georgia Swift King.

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   Style and the "Scribbling Women": An Empirical Analysis of Nineteenth-Century American Fiction » Read Now

   by Mary P. Hiatt. 164 pgs.

   Collections: Literature, Entire Library

   Derogation of nineteenth-century women novelists was often the immediate response to their works. While modern feminist scholarship has repudiated this view of "scribbling women," many critics and academics remain uninformed and continue to present a largely male canon for this period. The present...

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   Derogation of nineteenth-century women novelists was often the immediate response to their works. While modern feminist scholarship has repudiated this view of "scribbling women," many critics and academics remain uninformed and continue to present a largely male canon for this period. The present work undertakes an empirical test of stereotypical notions about nineteenth-century fiction, utilizing the computer to examine 80,000 words of running text from passages randomly chosen in twenty novels each by women and men. This material is analyzed for occurrences of various aspects of writing style, such as similes, parallel structures, rhetorical devices, certain adverbs and adjectives, and sentence length and complexity. That these findings show no overwhelming gender differences should finally put to rest negative stereotypes about nineteenth-century women writers.

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   With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women » Read Now

   by Shirley Logan Wilson. 172 pgs.

   Collections: Literature, Entire Library

   ...MOUNTING THE PLATFORM THE NINETEENTH CENTURY IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE was filled with...voices are those of black women, voices that are gradually...black freedom...
   
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   Well-Tempered Women: Nineteenth-Century Temperance Rhetoric » Read Now

   by Carol Mattingly. 220 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

   Mattingly examines the rhetoric of the temperance movement, the largest political movement of women in the nineteenth century.
   
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   Great Women of the Press » Read Now

   by Madelon Golden Schilpp, Sharon M. Murphy. 256 pgs.

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    We the Women: Career Firsts of Nineteenth-Century America » Read Now

    by Madeleine B. Stern. 410 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library

    ...those of the women writers of the day...Produced by American authors, it was...that in the mid-nineteenth century "the magazines...titillated the women of the...
    
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    Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life » Read Now

    by Charles M. Capper. 423 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library

    With this first volume of a two-part biography of the Transcendentalist critic and feminist leader, Margaret Fuller, Capper has launched the premier modern biography of early America's best-known intellectual woman. Based on a thorough examination of all the first-hand sources, many of them never...

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    With this first volume of a two-part biography of the Transcendentalist critic and feminist leader, Margaret Fuller, Capper has launched the premier modern biography of early America's best-known intellectual woman. Based on a thorough examination of all the first-hand sources, many of them never before used, this volume is filled with original portraits of Fuller's numerous friends and colleagues and the influential movements that enveloped them. Writing with a strong narrative sweep, Capper focuses on the central problem of Fuller's life--her identity as a female intellectual--and presents the first biography of Fuller to do full justice to its engrossing subject. This first volume chronicles Fuller's "private years": her gradual, tangled, but fascinating emergence out of the "private" life of family, study, Boston-Cambridge socializing, and anonymous magazine-writing, to the beginnings of her rebirth as antebellum America's female prophet-critic. Capper's biography is at once an evocative portrayal of an extraordinary woman and a comprehensive study of an avant-garde American intellectual type at the beginning of its first creation.

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    Annie Adams Fields: Woman of Letters » Read Now

    by Rita K. Gollin. 374 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library

    The life of an extraordinary nineteenth-century Boston woman, a published poet, essayist, novelist, and biographer.
    
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    Memories of a Hostess: A Chronicle of Eminent Friendships, Drawn Chiefly from the Diaries of Mrs. James T. Fields » Read Now

    by M. A. Dewolfe Howe. 312 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    
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    Cora Crane: A Biography of Mrs. Stephen Crane » Read Now

    by Lillian Gilkes. 416 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    
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    Unveiling Kate Chopin » Read Now

    by Emily Toth. 290 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library

    A vivid portrait of the author of The Awakening on the 100th anniversary of its publication.
    
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    Southern Womanhood and Slavery: A Biography of Louisa S. McCord, 1810-1879 » Read Now

    by Leigh Fought. 216 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library

    Southern Womanhood and Slavery is the first full-length biography of Louisa S. McCord, one of the most intriguing intellectuals in antebellum America. The daughter of South Carolina planter and politician Langdon Cheves, and an essayist in her own right, McCord supported unregulated free trade and...

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    Southern Womanhood and Slavery is the first full-length biography of Louisa S. McCord, one of the most intriguing intellectuals in antebellum America. The daughter of South Carolina planter and politician Langdon Cheves, and an essayist in her own right, McCord supported unregulated free trade and the perpetuation of slavery, and opposed the advancement of women's rights. This study examines the origins of her ideas. Leigh Fought constructs an exciting narrative that follows McCord from her childhood as the daughter of a state representative and president of the Bank of the United States, through her efforts to accept her position as wife and mother, her career as an author and plantation mistress, the Union invasion of South Carolina during the Civil War, and to the end of her life in the emerging New South. Fought analyzes McCord's poetry, letters, and essays in an effort to comprehend her acceptance of slavery and the submission of women. Fought concludes that McCord came to a defense of slavery through her experience with free labor in the north, which also reinforced her faith in the paternalist model for preserving social order. McCord's life as a writer on "unfeminine" subjects, her reputation as "strong-minded" and "masculine, " her late marriage, her continued ownership of her plantation after marriage, and her position as the matron of a Civil War hospital contradicted her own philosophy that women should remain the quiet force behind their husbands. She lived during a time of social flux in which free labor, slavery, and the role of women underwent dramatic changes, as well as a time that enabled her to discover and pursue her intellectual ambitions. Fought examines theconflict that resulted when those ambitions clashed with McCord's role as a woman in the society of the South. McCord's voice was an interesting, articulate, and necessary feminine addition to antebellum, southern, white ideology

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