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First Woman in the Republic : a Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child.
"Taking its title from the accolade William Lloyd Garrison bestowed on Child - "she is the first woman in the republic"--This innovative cultural biography recreates the world as well as the life of a major nineteenth-century figure whose career encompassed issues central to American...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1998.
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| Colección: | New Americanists.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Contents ""; ""Illustrations ""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments ""; ""Chronology ""; ""Abbreviations ""; ""Prologue: A Passion for Books ""; ""Chapter 1. The Author of Hobomok ""; ""Chapter 2. Rebels and ""Rivals"": Self Portraits of a Conflicted Young Artist ""; ""Chapter 3. The Juvenile Miscellany: The Creation of an American Children's Literature ""; ""Chapter 4. A Marriage of True Minds: Espousing the Indian Cause ""; ""Chapter 5. Blighted Prospects: Indian Fiction and Domestic Reality ""; ""Chapter 6. The Frugal Housewife: Financial Worries and Domestic Advice ""
- ""Chapter 7. Children's Literature and Antislavery: Conservative Medium, Radical Message """"Chapter 8. ""The First Woman in the Republic"": An Antislavery Baptism ""; ""Chapter 9. An Antislavery Marriage: Careers at Cross Purposes ""; ""Chapter 10. The Condition of Women: Double Binds, Unresolved Conflicts ""; ""Chapter 11. Schisms, Personal and Political ""; ""Chapter 12. The National Anti-Slavery Standard: Family Newspaper or Factional Organ? ""; ""Chapter 13. Letters from New York: The Invention of a New Literary Genre ""; ""Chapter 14. Sexuality and Marriage in Fact and Fiction ""
- ""Chapter 15. The Progress of Religious Ideas: A ""Pilgrimage of Penance"" """"Chapter 16. Autumnal Leaves: Reconsecrated Partnerships, Personal and Political ""; ""Chapter 17. The Example of John Brown ""; ""Chapter 18. Child's Civil War ""; ""Chapter 19. Visions of a Reconstructed America: The Freedmen's Book and A Romance of the Republic ""; ""Chapter 20. A Radical Old Age ""; ""Chapter 21. Aspirations of the World ""; ""Afterword ""; ""Notes ""; ""Works of Lydia Maria Child ""; ""Index ""