Louisa S Mccord

Author : Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813916534

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Louisa S. McCord by Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord Pdf

Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord (1810-1879) was one of the most remarkable figures in the intellectual history of antebellum America. A conservative intellectual, she broke the confines of Southern gender roles. Over the past decade historians have begun to pay attention to McCord and find her indespensible to understanding American culture. Among Southerners before the Civil War, she is ranked with Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, James Madison, Sarah Grimke, John C. Calhoun, George Fitzhugh, and Frederick Douglass. This volume collects all of her poetry, drama, and correspondence, her account of Sherman's occupation of Columbia, and a memoir of her father, politician and statesman Langdon Cheves. Its publication, together with the previously published Louisa S. McCord: Poltical and Social Essays, makes available all of Louisa McCords's varied writings.

Author : Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0813917603

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Louisa S. McCord by Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord Pdf

Breaking the confines of Southern gender roles through her outspoken conservative writings, Louisa McCord became one of the most remarkable intellectual figures in antebellum America. This is a selection of her best-known and most significant pieces ranging from poetry to correspondence.

Author : Leigh Fought
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826262837

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Southern Womanhood and Slavery by Leigh Fought Pdf

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, and the Union invasion of South Carolina during the Civil War, 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 the conflict 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 white ideology. Moreover, her story demonstrates the ways in which southern women negotiated through patriarchy without surrendering their sense of self or disrupting the social order. Engaging and very readable, Southern Womanhood and Slavery will be of special interest to students of southern history and women’s studies, as well as to the general reader.

Author : Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0813915708

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Political and Social Essays by Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord Pdf

This volume includes her essays on slavery, secession, women's role, and political economy, fully annotated, along with an Introduction by Michael O'Brien, Chair of the Editorial Board of the Southern Texts Society.

Author : Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B274681

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My Dreams by Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord Pdf

Author : Sally Baxter Hampton
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0964057603

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A Divided Heart by Sally Baxter Hampton Pdf

Insightful correspondence from a New Yorker among the Hamptons on the eve of war

Author : Kirsten Kara Madden,Janet A. Seiz,Michèle A. Pujol
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 041523817X

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A Bibliography of Female Economic Thought to 1940 by Kirsten Kara Madden,Janet A. Seiz,Michèle A. Pujol Pdf

" ... Contains references to over 10,000 articles, books, and pamphlets on economic issues, written by more than 1,700 women, published between 1770 and 1940"--Introduction.

Author : Caroline Winterer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501711558

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The Mirror of Antiquity by Caroline Winterer Pdf

In The Mirror of Antiquity, Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American women's classicism during its glory days from the eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Overturning the widely held belief that classical learning and political ideals were relevant only to men, she follows the lives of four generations of American women through their diaries, letters, books, needlework, and drawings, demonstrating how classicism was at the center of their experience as mothers, daughters, and wives. Importantly, she pays equal attention to women from the North and from the South, and to the ways that classicism shaped the lives of black women in slavery and freedom.In a strikingly innovative use of both texts and material culture, Winterer exposes the neoclassical world of furnishings, art, and fashion created in part through networks dominated by elite women. Many of these women were at the center of the national experience. Here readers will find Abigail Adams, teaching her children Latin and signing her letters as Portia, the wife of the Roman senator Brutus; the Massachusetts slave Phillis Wheatley, writing poems in imitation of her favorite books, Alexander Pope's Iliad and Odyssey; Dolley Madison, giving advice on Greek taste and style to the U.S. Capitol's architect, Benjamin Latrobe; and the abolitionist and feminist Lydia Maria Child, who showed Americans that modern slavery had its roots in the slave societies of Greece and Rome. Thoroughly embedded in the major ideas and events of the time—the American Revolution, slavery and abolitionism, the rise of a consumer society—this original book is a major contribution to American cultural and intellectual history.

Author : Sarah Meer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820327379

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Uncle Tom Mania by Sarah Meer Pdf

Tom-Mania looks at the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and the songs, plays, sketches, translations and imitations it inspired. In particular it shows how the theatrical mode of blackface minstrelsy, the slavery question, and America's emerging cultural identity affected how the novel was read, discussed, dramatized, merchandized and politicised.

Author : Jonathan Daniel Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139503495

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Women Writers and Journalists in the Nineteenth-Century South by Jonathan Daniel Wells Pdf

The first study to focus on white and black women journalists and writers both before and after the Civil War, this book offers fresh insight into Southern intellectual life, the fight for women's rights and gender ideology. Based on new research into Southern magazines and newspapers, this book seeks to shift scholarly attention away from novelists and toward the rich and diverse periodical culture of the South between 1820 and 1900. Magazines were of central importance to the literary culture of the South because the region lacked the publishing centers that could produce large numbers of books. As editors, contributors, correspondents and reporters in the nineteenth century, Southern women entered traditionally male bastions when they embarked on careers in journalism. In so doing, they opened the door to calls for greater political and social equality at the turn of the twentieth century.

Author : Carolyn Perry,Mary Weaks-Baxter
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807127531

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The History of Southern Women's Literature by Carolyn Perry,Mary Weaks-Baxter Pdf

Many of America’s foremost, and most beloved, authors are also southern and female: Mary Chesnut, Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Harper Lee, Maya Angelou, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Lee Smith, to name several. Designating a writer as “southern” if her work reflects the region’s grip on her life, Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks have produced an invaluable guide to the richly diverse and enduring tradition of southern women’s literature. Their comprehensive history—the first of its kind in a relatively young field—extends from the pioneer woman to the career woman, embracing black and white, poor and privileged, urban and Appalachian perspectives and experiences. The History of Southern Women’s Literature allows readers both to explore individual authors and to follow the developing arc of various genres across time. Conduct books and slave narratives; Civil War diaries and letters; the antebellum, postbellum, and modern novel; autobiography and memoirs; poetry; magazine and newspaper writing—these and more receive close attention. Over seventy contributors are represented here, and their essays discuss a wealth of women’s issues from four centuries: race, urbanization, and feminism; the myth of southern womanhood; preset images and assigned social roles—from the belle to the mammy—and real life behind the facade of meeting others’ expectations; poverty and the labor movement; responses to Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the influence of Gone with the Wind. The history of southern women’s literature tells, ultimately, the story of the search for freedom within an “insidious tradition,” to quote Ellen Glasgow. This teeming volume validates the deep contributions and pleasures of an impressive body of writing and marks a major achievement in women’s and literary studies.

Author : J. William Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134911851

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Society and Culture in the Slave South by J. William Harris Pdf

Combining established work with that of recent provocative scholarship on the antebellum South, this collection of essays puts students in touch with some of the central debates in this dynamic field. It includes substantial excerpts from the work of Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, who lay out the influential interpretation of the South as a `paternalistic' society and culture, and contributions from more recent scholars who provide dissenting or alternative interpretations of the relations between masters and slaves and men and women. The essays draw on a wide range of disciplines, including economics, psychology and anthropology to investigate the nature of plantation and family life in the South. Explanatory notes guide the reader through each essay and the Editor's introduction places the work in its historiographical context.

Author : William Cushing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026053921

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Initials and Pseudonyms by William Cushing Pdf

Author : Ronald Lora,William Henry Longton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313032585

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The Conservative Press in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America by Ronald Lora,William Henry Longton Pdf

Selecting journals that speak for a very large number of topics addressed by the conservative press, this volume profiles selected conservative journals published since 1787. The conservative press has scarcely spoken with a single voice, whether the topics treated or even the time inhabited are the same or different. Yet, these journals testify to the persistent vigor and importance of conservatism. Together they provide a focused survey of the history of American conservative thought from the late 18th Century to the late 19th Century. Along with the companion volume covering the 20th Century conservative press, the book provides an important resource on conservative thought in America. Despite the disparities in conservative intellectual thought, the journals covered, even the more idiosyncratic and extreme, are connected by their core values of conservatism. The book is organized into sections reflecting these connections. The first section covers journals associated with Federal, Whig, or, in the Civil War era, Northern Democratic political interests. A later section includes journals sharing an attachment to Southern conservative values during the antebellum and Reconstruction periods. Two sections deal, respectively, with 19th Century Orthodox Protestant periodicals and 19th Century Catholic and Episcopal journals, and yet another section discusses journals united by a major focus on literary topics and cultural connections.

Author : Valinda W. Littlefield
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643361604

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101 Women Who Shaped South Carolina by Valinda W. Littlefield Pdf

Prior to the twenty-first century, most historical writing about women in South Carolina focused on elite White women, even though working-class women of diverse backgrounds were actively engaged in the social, economic, and political battles of the state. Although often unrecognized publicly, they influenced cultural and political landscapes both within and outside of the state's borders through their careers, writing, art, music, and activism. Despite significant cultural, social, and political barriers, these brave and determined women affected sweeping change that advanced the position of women as well as their communities. The entries in 101 Women Who Shaped South Carolina, which include many from the landmark text The South Carolina Encyclopedia, offer a concise and approachable history of the state, while recognizing the sacrifice, persistence, and sheer grit of its heroines and history makers. A foreword is provided by Walter Edgar, Neuffer Professor of Southern Studies Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of South Carolina.