Writing For Social Change In Temperance Periodicals

Author : Annemarie McAllister
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000779981

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Writing for Social Change in Temperance Periodicals by Annemarie McAllister Pdf

This book suggests alternative ways of looking at what made a writer, what people gained from writing, and explores the alternative world of temperance periodicals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It introduces some of the now-forgotten writers who, in their thousands, kept the Victorian periodical presses rolling, and the public entertained. Locating their writing in the context of their personal commitment, the study takes seven prolific writers who were outside what we now think of as the circuits of conventional publication and authorship, and looks at how they found ways to make their voices heard. Their absorption in a cause led them to forge impressive writing careers in a variety of genres and media, focusing around high-circulation temperance periodicals. Examining their cultural contributions as well as their professional lives confirms the importance of the temperance movement in the second half of the nineteenth century, and raises questions about distribution practices and values, and distinctions between "life" and "work."

Author : David M. Fahey
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781527504691

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Forgotten Temperance Reformers by David M. Fahey Pdf

This book is a collection of biographies of leaders in the temperance movement: Margaret Fison, Sir Thomas Whittaker, Arthur Sherwell, Jessie Forsyth and Guy Hayler. All five of the forgotten temperance reformers were prolific writers. Recovering the lives and works of these forgotten women and men enhances our understanding of the temperance movement. This book will be of special interest for anyone interested in the lost history of social movements, academics and researchers.

Author : Michelle J. Smith,Beth Rodgers,Kristine Moruzi
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 919 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781399506670

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Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals by Michelle J. Smith,Beth Rodgers,Kristine Moruzi Pdf

Since the publication of the first children's periodical in the 1750s, magazines have been an affordable and accessible way for children to read and form virtual communities. Despite the range of children's periodicals that exist, they have not been studied to the same extent as children's literature. The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals marks the first major history of magazines for young people from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. Bringing together periodicals from Britain, Ireland, North America, Australia, New Zealand and India, this book explores the roles of gender, race and national identity in the construction of children as readers and writers. It provides new insights both into how child readers shaped the magazines they read and how magazines have encouraged children to view themselves as political and world subjects.

Author : Angharad Eyre
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000774528

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Women’s Writing and Mission in the Nineteenth Century by Angharad Eyre Pdf

Until now, the missionary plot in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre has been seen as marginal and anomalous. Despite women missionaries being ubiquitous in the nineteenth century, they appeared to be absent from nineteenth-century literature. As this book demonstrates, though, the female missionary character and narrative was, in fact, present in a range of writings from missionary newsletters and life writing, to canonical Victorian literature, New Woman fiction and women’s college writing. Nineteenth-century women writers wove the tropes of the female missionary figure and plot into their domestic fiction, and the female missionary themes of religious self-sacrifice and heroism formed the subjectivity of these writers and their characters. Offering an alternative narrative for the development of women writers and early feminism, as well as a new reading of Jane Eyre, this book adds to the debate about whether religious women in the nineteenth century could actually be radical and feminist.

Author : Margaret Harris,Matthew Sussman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000829792

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Antipodean George Eliot by Margaret Harris,Matthew Sussman Pdf

In Middlemarch, George Eliot famously warns readers not to see themselves as the centre of their own world, which produces a ‘flattering illusion of concentric arrangement’. The scholarly contributors to Antipodean George Eliot resist this form of centrism. Hailing from four continents and six countries, they consider Eliot from a variety of de-centred vantage points, exploring how the obscure and marginal in Eliot’s life and work sheds surprising light on the central and familiar. With essays that span the full range of Eliot’s career—from her early journalism, to her major novels, to eccentric late works such as Impressions of Theophrastus Such—Antipodean George Eliot is committed to challenging orthodoxies about Eliot’s development as a writer, overturning received ideas about her moral and political thought, and unveiling new contexts for appreciating her unparalleled significance in nineteenth-century letters.

Author : Jennifer Conary,Mary L. Shannon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000821604

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G.W.M. Reynolds Reimagined by Jennifer Conary,Mary L. Shannon Pdf

This essay collection proposes that G.W.M. Reynolds’s contribution to Victorian print culture reveals the interrelations between authorship, genre, and radicalism in popular print culture of the nineteenth century. As a best-selling author of popular fiction marketed to the lower classes, and a passionate champion of radical politics and "the industrious classes," Reynolds and his work demonstrate the relevance of Victorian Studies to topics of pressing contemporary concern including populism, working-class fiction, the concept of ‘originality’, and the collective scholarly endeavour to ‘widen’ and ‘undiscipline’ Victorian Studies. Bringing together well-known and newly-emerging scholars from across different disciplinary perspectives, the volume explores the importance of Reynolds Studies to scholarship on the nineteenth-century. This book will appeal to students and scholars of the nineteenth-century press, popular culture, and of authorship, as well as to Victorian Studies scholars interested in the translation of Victorian texts into new and indigenous markets.

Author : Teja Varma Pusapati
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000988000

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Model Women of the Press by Teja Varma Pusapati Pdf

This book offers the first extended account of the mid-century rise of ‘model women of the press’: women who not only stormed the male bastions of social and political journalism but also presented themselves as upholders of the highest standards of professional journalistic practice. They broke the codes of anonymity in several ways, including signing articles in their own names and developing distinctly female personae. They proved, by example, women’s fitness for conventionally masculine lines of journalism. By placing Victorian women’s serious, high-minded journalism firmly within the context of ‘the widening sphere’ of female professions in mid-nineteenth-century England, the book shows how a wide range of women writers, including leading Victorian feminists and female reformers, contributed to the professionalization of women’s authorship. Drawing on extensive archival research and close analysis of a wide range of printed texts, from Victorian newspapers and periodicals to autobiographies, memoirs, and fiction, this book elucidates several aspects of Victorian women’s journalism that have been previously ignored: the market interest of the feminist English Woman’s Journal; the ability of women like Eliza Meteyard and Frances Power Cobbe to write consistently on serious social and political issues in mainstream periodicals; Harriet Ward’s astonishing reportage from the war fields of South Africa; and Harriet Martineau’s reports on Famine-devastated Ireland and her role as a transatlantic commentator on American abolitionism. The study also offers the first focused account of the figure of the female professional journalist in Victorian novels, showing how these texts move away from the dominant myth of the author as a solitary genius to present the female journalist as a collaborator who adapts her writing to fit various newspapers and periodicals, and works closely with male editors and peers. In examining the rise of the Victorian woman writer as a serious social and political journalist, this book adds to current critical understanding of female political expression, authorial agency, and cultural authority in nineteenth-century England.

Author : Aleta Feinsod Cane,Susan Alves
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781587294006

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The Only Efficient Instrument by Aleta Feinsod Cane,Susan Alves Pdf

Many farsighted women writers in nineteenth-century America made thoughtful and sustained use of newspapers and magazines to effect social and political change. “The Only Efficient Instrument”: American Women Writers and the Periodical, 1837-1916 examines these pioneering efforts and demonstrates that American women had a vital presence in the political and intellectual communities of their day. Women writers and editors of diverse social backgrounds and ethnicities realized very early that the periodical was a powerful tool for education and social reform—it was the only efficient instrument to make themselves and their ideas better known. This collection of critical essays explores American women's engagement with the periodical press and shows their threefold use of the periodical: for social and political advocacy; for the critique of gender roles and social expectations; and for refashioning the periodical as a more inclusive genre that both articulated and obscured such distinctions as class, race, and gender. Including essays on familiar figures such as Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kate Chopin, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Only Efficient Instrument” also focuses on writings from lesser-known authors, including Native American Zitkala-Sä, Mexican American María Cristina Mena, African American Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and the Lowell factory workers. Covering nearly eighty years of publishing history, from the press censure of the outspoken Angelina Grimké in 1837 to the last issue of Gilman's Forerunner in 1916, this fascinating collection breaks new ground in the study of the women's rights movement in America.

Author : David K. Adams,Cornelius A. Van Minnen
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999-06
Category : History
ISBN : 081470686X

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Religious and Secular Reform in America by David K. Adams,Cornelius A. Van Minnen Pdf

From its earliest days, the United States has provided fertile ground for reform movements to flourish. In this volume, twelve eminent historians assess religious and secular reform in America from the eighteenth century to the present day. The essays offer a mix of general overviews and specific case studies, addressing such topics as radical religion in New England, leisure in antebellum America, Sabbatarianism, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and Evangelicalism, social reform, and the U.S. welfare state. Suitable for students, the essays, each based on original research, will also be of interest to researchers and academics working in this area, as well as to all those with an interest in the history of religious and secular reform in America.

Author : Jason A. Edwards,Joseph M. Valenzano
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498541497

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The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion by Jason A. Edwards,Joseph M. Valenzano Pdf

The tie that binds all Americans, regardless of their demographic background, is faith in the American system of government. This faith manifests as a form of civil, or secular, religion with its own core documents, creeds, oaths, ceremonies, and even individuals. In The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion: Symbols, Sinners, and Saints, contributors seek to examine some of those core elements of American faith by exploring the proverbial saints, sinners and dominant symbols of the American system.

Author : Sarah Wadsworth,Wayne A. Wiegand
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781558499287

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Right Here I See My Own Books by Sarah Wadsworth,Wayne A. Wiegand Pdf

Explores the creation and significance of an exhibit hall at the 1893 world's fair that contained more than 8,000 volumes of writings by women.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1986-06
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:30000010536534

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Resources in education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frances E. Willard
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252056499

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Let Something Good Be Said by Frances E. Willard Pdf

The definitive collection of speeches and writings of one of America's most important social reformers Celebrated as the most famous woman in America at the time of her death in 1898, Frances E. Willard was a leading nineteenth-century American temperance and women's rights reformer and a powerful orator. President of Evanston College for Ladies (before it merged with Northwestern University) and then professor of rhetoric and aesthetics and the first dean of women at Northwestern, Willard is best known for leading the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), America's largest women's organization. The WCTU shaped both domestic and international opinion on major political, economic, and social reform issues, including temperance, women's rights, and the rising labor movement. In what Willard regarded as her most important and far-reaching reform, she championed a new ideal of a powerful, independent womanhood and encouraged women to become active agents of social change. Willard's reputation as a powerful reformer reached its height with her election as president of the National Council of Women in 1888. This definitive collection follows Willard's public reform career, providing primary documents as well as the historical context necessary to clearly demonstrate her skill as a speaker and writer who addressed audiences as diverse as political conventions, national women's organizations, teen girls, state legislators, church groups, and temperance advocates. Including Willard's representative speeches and published writings on everything from temperance and women's rights to the new labor movement and Christian socialism, Let Something Good Be Said is the first volume to collect the messages of one of America's most important social reformers who inspired a generation of women to activism.

Author : Joseph Rowntree,Arthur Sherwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Alcoholism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012166299

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The Temperance Problem and Social Reform by Joseph Rowntree,Arthur Sherwell Pdf

Author : Emily Hamilton-Honey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786463220

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Turning the Pages of American Girlhood by Emily Hamilton-Honey Pdf

Alternating chapters of historical background and literary analysis, this study argues that postbellum series books inspired young women by illustrating the ways in which girls could participate in social change, whether through church societies, benevolent organizations, educational institutions or political groups. By 1900, however, the socialization of series heroines had shifted to the consumer marketplace, where girls could develop personality and taste through their purchases. Both models had benefits: Religious faith and political activism gave young women moral power within their communities; consuming gave them opportunities to indulge individual desires and often to socialize in public without adult oversight. This work adds to the existing scholarship on girls' culture not only by examining the beginnings of series fiction for girls and the models of womanhood it presented but also by tracing the shifting social ideologies of girlhood throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries.