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Raising Voices, Lifting Shadows: Competing Voice-Paradigms in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy, in African American Review » Read Now
by James Christmann. 5 pgs.

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...Competing Voice-Paradigms in Frances E. W. Harpers Iola Leroy by James Christmann...biographer Melba Joyce Boyd, "Frances Harper lectured and lived with ex-slaves...York:...
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Gendering the Debate over African Americans' Education in the 1880s: Frances Harper's Reconfiguration of Atticus Haygood's Philanthropic Model, in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers » Read Now
by Sarah Robbins. 9 pgs.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...Americans education in the 1880s: Frances Harpers reconfiguration of Atticus Haygoods...uplift like that envisioned by Frances Harper (212). If Haygoods moralizing...1889...
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Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892 (Chap. Eight "Doers of the Word: The Reconstruction Poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper") » Read Now
by Frances Smith Foster. 206 pgs.

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This is the first comprehensive cultural of history of literature by African American women prior to the Twentieth century. Beginning with the earliest extant writings, Frances Smith Foster her textual analysis within the writers' social and literary contexts.
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We Are Coming: The Persuasive Discourse of Nineteenth-Century Black Women (Chap. 3 "'We Are All Bound Up Together': Frances Harper's Converging Communities of Interest") » Read Now
by Shirley Wilson Logan. 262 pgs.

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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...
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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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Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist (Chap. 4 "'Of Lasting Service for the Race': The Work of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper") » Read Now
by Hazel V. Carby. 223 pgs.

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A cultural history of the work of nineteenth-century black women writers, this volume traces the emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural reconstruction, examining the ways in which dominant sexual ideologies influenced the literary conventions of women's fiction, and reassessing...
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A cultural history of the work of nineteenth-century black women writers, this volume traces the emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural reconstruction, examining the ways in which dominant sexual ideologies influenced the literary conventions of women's fiction, and reassessing the uses of fiction in American culture. Carby revises the history of the period of Jim Crow and Booker T. Washington, depicting a time of intense cultural and political activity by such black women writers as Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Pauline Hopkins.
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With Pen and Voice: A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women (Chap. 3 "Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911)" ) » Read Now
by Shirley Logan Wilson. 172 pgs.

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...Earlys speech with discussion. Frances Harper, from Philadelphia, spoke during...construction wood Cooper, Frances Harper, Anna Cooper, "Womanhood...Davis 72 - 73 . Truth...
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Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women's Writing, 1850-1930 (Chap. 6 "The Politics of Hybridity in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy") » Read Now
by Martha J. Cutter. 228 pgs.

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A study of how women writers found ways to sound an authoritative voice in the male-dominated world.
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Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Chap. 5 "Fashioning a Free Self: Consumption, Politics, and Power in the Writings of Elizabeth Keckley and Frances Harper") » Read Now
by Lori Merish. 390 pgs.

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In Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Taking as her starting point a diversity of cultural art facts -- from domestic fiction and philosophical treatises to advice literature and...
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In Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Taking as her starting point a diversity of cultural art facts -- from domestic fiction and philosophical treatises to advice literature and cigars -- Merish explores the symbolic functions they served and finds that consumption evolved into a form of personal expressiveness that indicated not only a woman's wealth and taste but also her race, class, morality, and civic values. The discursive production of this new subjectivity -- the feminine consumer -- was remarkably influential, helping to shape American capitalism, culture, and nation building.
The phenomenon of female consumption was capitalism's complement to male production: It created what Merish calls the "Other Protestant Ethic", a feminine and sentimental counter-part to Max Weber's ethic of hard work, economic rationality, and self-control. In addition, driven by the culture's effort to,civilize the "cannibalistic" practices of ethnic, class, and national otherness, appropriate female consumerism, marked by taste and refinement, identified certain women and their families as proper citizens of the United States. The public nature of consumption, however, had curiously conflicting effects: While the achievement of cultured material circumstances facilitated women's civic agency, it also reinforced stereotypes of domestic womanhood.
Merish's inquiry into middle-class consumption and accompanying ideals of womanhood will appeal to readers in a variety of disciplines, including American studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, and cultural history.
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Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill ("The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill" begins on p. 455) » Read Now
by Michael Moon, Cathy N. Davidson. 529 pgs.

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...Washington City: Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, Anita Hill 455...testimonies of Harriet Jacobs, Frances Harper, and Anita Hill, she writes...Elizabeth Young returns us to...
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Nineteenth-Century Women Writers of the English-Speaking World (Chap. 18 "Afro-American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century") » Read Now
by Rhoda B. Nathan. 276 pgs.

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...Helen Waite Papashvily, All the Happy Endings New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1956 , p. 149. 4...6. E. M. Rowell, "To Me He Was Mr. Dodgson," Harpers Magazine...
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African-American Orators: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook ("Frances Ellen Watkins Harper" begins on p. 171) » Read Now
by Richard W. Leeman. 452 pgs.

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Long-needed sourcebook assessing the unique styles and themes of notable African-American orators.
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African American Authors, 1745-1945: Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Frances Ellen Watkins Harper" begins on p. 213) » Read Now
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 528 pgs.

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There has been a dramatic resurgence of interest in early African American writing. The works of dozens of 18th and early 20th century black writers have been recovered and reprinted; there has been a significant revival of interest in the Harlem Renaissance; and several major assessments of 18th...
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There has been a dramatic resurgence of interest in early African American writing. The works of dozens of 18th and early 20th century black writers have been recovered and reprinted; there has been a significant revival of interest in the Harlem Renaissance; and several major assessments of 18th and 19th century African American literature have recently been published. This reference book provides alphabetically arranged entries for 78 African American writers active between 1745 and 1945. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a summary of the critical response to the author, and primary and secondary bibliographies. A selected, general bibliography concludes the volume.
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Race Passing and American Individualism (Discussion of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper begins on p. 12) » Read Now
by Kathleen Pfeiffer. 168 pgs.

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A literary study of the ambiguities of racial identity in American culture
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Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century » Read Now
by Claudia Tate. 302 pgs.

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Why did African-American women novelists use idealized stories of bourgeois courtship and marriage to mount arguments on social reform during the last decade of the nineteenth century, during a time when resurgent racism conditioned the lives of all black Americans? Such stories now seem like...
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Why did African-American women novelists use idealized stories of bourgeois courtship and marriage to mount arguments on social reform during the last decade of the nineteenth century, during a time when resurgent racism conditioned the lives of all black Americans? Such stories now seem like apolitical fantasies to contemporary readers. This is the question at the center of Tate's examination of the novels of Pauline Hopkins, Emma Kelley, Amelia Johnson, Katherine Tillman, and Frances Harper. Domestic Allegories of Political Desire is more than a literary study; it is also a social and intellectual history--a cultural critique of a period that historian Rayford W. Logan called "the Dark Ages of recent American history." Against a rich contextual framework, extending from abolitionist protest to the Black Aesthetic, Tate argues that the idealized marriage plot in these novels does not merely depict the heroine's happiness and economic prosperity. More importantly, that plot encodes a resonant cultural narrative--a domestic allegory--about the political ambitions of an emancipated people. Once this domestic allegory of political desire is unmasked in these novels, it can be seen as a significant discourse of the post-Reconstruction era for representing African-Americans' collective dreams about freedom and for reconstructing those contested dreams into consummations of civil liberty.
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Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life: Their Words, Their Thoughts, Their Feelings ("Frances Ellen Watkins Harper" begins on p. 243) » Read Now
by Ruth Bogin, Bert James Loewenberg. 355 pgs.

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African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965 ("Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Abolitionist and Feminist Reformer 1825-1911" begins on p. 41) » Read Now
by Bettye Collier-Thomas, Ann D. Gordon. 217 pgs.

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"An exciting and pathbreaking collection containing many exceptionally well-written, thought-provoking, insightful essays on a subject that has never before received this concentrated attention". -- Darlene Clark Hine