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The 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,
1994.
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| Colección: | New Americanists.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: A passion for books
- The author of Hobomok
- Rebels and "Rivals": self portraits of a conflicted young artist
- The juvenile miscellany : the creation of an American children's literature
- A marriage of true minds : espousing the Indian cause
- Blighted prospects : Indian fiction and domestic reality
- The frugal housewife : financial worries and domestic advice
- Children's literature and antislavery : conservative medium, radical message
- "The first woman in the republic" : an antislavery baptism
- An antislavery marriage : careers at cross purposes
- The condition of women : double binds, unresolved conflicts
- Schisms, personal and political
- The national anti-slavery standard : family newspaper or factional organ?
- Letters from New York : the invention of a new literary genre
- Sexuality and marriage in Fact and fiction
- The progress of religious ideas : a "pilgrimage of penance"
- Autumnal leaves : reconsecrated partnerships, personal and political
- The example of John Brown
- Child's Civil War
- Visions of a reconstructed America : The freedmen's book and A romance of the republic
- A radical old age
- Aspirations of the world.