Women Writers And Journalists In The Nineteenth Century South

Author : Jonathan Daniel Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : William A. Blair
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807852668

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Journal of the Civil War Era by William A. Blair Pdf

The Journal of the Civil War Era Volume 2, Number 4 December 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles Mark Fleszar "My Laborers in Haiti are not Slaves": Proslavery Fictions and a Black Colonization Experiment on the Northern Coast, 1835-1846 Jarret Ruminski "Tradyville": The Contraband Trade and the Problem of Loyalty in Civil War Mississippi K. Stephen Prince Legitimacy and Interventionism: Northern Republicans, the "Terrible Carpetbagger," and the Retreat from Reconstruction Review Essay Roseanne Currarino Toward a History of Cultural Economy Professional Notes T. Lloyd Benson Geohistory: Democratizing the Landscape of Battle Book Reviews Books Received Notes on Contributors The Journal of the Civil War Era takes advantage of the flowering of research on the many issues raised by the sectional crisis, war, Reconstruction, and memory of the conflict, while bringing fresh understanding to the struggles that defined the period, and by extension, the course of American history in the nineteenth century.

Author : Jonathan Daniel Wells
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317665496

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The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America by Jonathan Daniel Wells Pdf

The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America provides an important overview of the main themes within the study of the long nineteenth century. The book explores major currents of research over the past few decades to give an up-to-date synthesis of nineteenth-century history. It shows how the century defined much of our modern world, focusing on themes including: immigration, slavery and racism, women's rights, literature and culture, and urbanization. This collection reflects the state of the field and will be essential reading for all those interested in the development of the modern United States.

Author : Sharon D. Kennedy-Nolle
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469621081

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Writing Reconstruction by Sharon D. Kennedy-Nolle Pdf

After the Civil War, the South was divided into five military districts occupied by Union forces. Out of these regions, a remarkable group of writers emerged. Experiencing the long-lasting ramifications of Reconstruction firsthand, many of these writers sought to translate the era's promise into practice. In fiction, newspaper journalism, and other forms of literature, authors including George Washington Cable, Albion Tourgee, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and Octave Thanet imagined a new South in which freedpeople could prosper as citizens with agency. Radically re-envisioning the role of women in the home, workforce, and marketplace, these writers also made gender a vital concern of their work. Still, working from the South, the authors were often subject to the whims of a northern literary market. Their visions of citizenship depended on their readership's deference to conventional claims of duty, labor, reputation, and property ownership. The circumstances surrounding the production and circulation of their writing blunted the full impact of the period's literary imagination and fostered a drift into the stereotypical depictions and other strictures that marked the rise of Jim Crow. Sharon D. Kennedy-Nolle blends literary history with archival research to assess the significance of Reconstruction literature as a genre. Founded on witness and dream, the pathbreaking work of its writers made an enduring, if at times contradictory, contribution to American literature and history.

Author : Claire Emilie Martin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031404948

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The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century by Claire Emilie Martin Pdf

Author : Kim Tolley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469624341

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Heading South to Teach by Kim Tolley Pdf

Susan Nye Hutchison (1790-1867) was one of many teachers to venture south across the Mason-Dixon Line in the Second Great Awakening. From 1815 to 1841, she kept journals about her career, family life, and encounters with slavery. Drawing on these journals and hundreds of other documents, Kim Tolley uses Hutchison's life to explore the significance of education in transforming American society in the early national period. Tolley examines the roles of ambitious, educated women like Hutchison who became teachers for economic, spiritual, and professional reasons. During this era, working women faced significant struggles when balancing career ambitions with social conventions about female domesticity. Hutchison's eventual position as head of a respected southern academy was as close to equity as any woman could achieve in any field. By recounting Hutchison's experiences--from praying with slaves and free blacks in the streets of Raleigh and establishing an independent school in Georgia to defying North Carolina law by teaching slaves to read--Tolley offers a rich microhistory of an antebellum teacher. Hutchison's story reveals broad social and cultural shifts and opens an important window onto the world of women's work in southern education.

Author : Jacqueline Jones Royster
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780822989912

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Making the World a Better Place by Jacqueline Jones Royster Pdf

In Making the World a Better Place, Royster argues that African American women must be taken seriously as historical actors who were more consistently and more variously engaged in community- and nation-building than they have been given credit for. Their considerable rhetorical expertise becomes evident when looking carefully at their work in terms of identity, agency, authority, and expressiveness. Their writings constitute a substantial artifactual record of their levels of engagement, their excellence in sociopolitical work, and the legacies of leadership and action. The writing of African American women during the nineteenth century reflects their own perceptions of the ways and means of their lives. They deserve to be recognized as consequential contributors to the narratives of the nation, rather than marginalized as a group. To that end, Jacqueline Jones Royster offers a deeper understanding, often through their own words, of these women, their practices, and their achievements.

Author : Andrew L. Slap,Frank Towers
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226300207

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Confederate Cities by Andrew L. Slap,Frank Towers Pdf

When we talk about the Civil War, it is often with references to battles like Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, and, perhaps most tellingly, the Battle of the Wilderness, which all took place in the countryside or in small towns. Part of the reason this picture has persisted is that few of the historians who have studied the war have been urban historians, even though cities hosted, enabled, and shaped southern society as much as in the North. The essays in Andrew Slap and Frank Towers s collection seek to shift the focus from the agrarian economy that undergirded the South to the cities that served as its political and administrative hubs. By demanding a more holistic reading of the South, this collection speaks to contemporary Civil War scholars and classrooms alike not least in providing surprisingly fresh perspectives on a well-studied war."

Author : David Stefan Doddington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108423984

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Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South by David Stefan Doddington Pdf

Highlights competing masculine values in slave communities and reveals how masculinity shaped resistance, accommodation, and survival.

Author : Sarah Gardner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107147942

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Reviewing the South by Sarah Gardner Pdf

An examination of the literary marketplace's central role in creating the Southern Literary Renaissance.

Author : Michael D'Alessandro
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472133178

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Staged Readings by Michael D'Alessandro Pdf

How popular culture helped to create class in nineteenth-century America

Author : Damian Pargas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107031210

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Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South by Damian Pargas Pdf

This book sheds new light on domestic forced migration by examining the experiences of American-born slave migrants from a comparative perspective. It analyzes how different migrant groups anticipated, reacted to, and experienced forced removal, as well as how they adapted to their new homes.

Author : Craig Thompson Friend,Lorri Glover
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107084209

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Death and the American South by Craig Thompson Friend,Lorri Glover Pdf

Death and the American South is an edited collection of twelve never-before-published essays, featuring leading senior scholars as well as influential up-and-coming historians. The contributors use a variety of methodological approaches for their research and explore different parts of the South and varying themes in history.

Author : James Van Horn Melton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107063280

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Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier by James Van Horn Melton Pdf

This book tells the story of Ebenezer, a frontier community in colonial Georgia founded by a mountain community fleeing religious persecution in its native Salzburg. This study traces the lives of the settlers from the alpine world they left behind to their struggle for survival on the southern frontier of British America. Exploring their encounters with African and indigenous peoples with whom they had had no previous contact, this book examines their initial opposition to slavery and why they ultimately embraced it. Transatlantic in scope, this study will interest readers of European and American history alike.

Author : Louis A. Ferleger,John D. Metz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107054110

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Cultivating Success in the South by Louis A. Ferleger,John D. Metz Pdf

This book explores changes in rural households of the Georgia Piedmont through the material culture of farmers as they transitioned from self-sufficiency to market dependence. The period between 1880 and 1910 was a time of dynamic change when Southern farmers struggled to reinvent their lives and livelihoods. Relying on primary documents, including probate inventories, tax lists, state and federal census data, and estate sale results, this study seeks to understand the variables that prompted farm households to assume greater risk in hopes of success as well as those factors that stood in the way of progress. While there are few projects of this type for the late nineteenth century, and fewer still for the New South, the findings challenge the notion of farmers as overly conservative consumers and call into question traditional views of conspicuous consumption as a key indicator of wealth and status.