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  • Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem

    African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919

    Edited by Barbara McCaskill, Caroline Gebhard ...
    The years between the collapse of Reconstruction and the end of World War I mark a pivotal moment in African American cultural production. Christened the “Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem” era by the novelist Charles Chesnutt, these years look back to the antislavery movement and forward to the artistic flowering and racial self-consciousness of the Harlem Renaissance.Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem offers fresh ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Secret Histories

    A New Era in Constance Fenimore Woolson Scholarship

    by Lisa West, Etta Madden, Kristin M. Comment, Susan L. Roberson, Sidonia Serafini, Aaron J. Rovan, Kathryn McKee, Karen Tracey, John Lowe, Lisa Nais, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, Katherine Barrett Swett, Heather Hartley, Edoarda Grego ...
    The eighteen essays in this volume explore Constance Fenimore Woolson’s prodigious range in period and genre as well as place, from the Great Lakes to the defeated South and across storied Europe to the Mediterranean. The whole of her professional life comes alive in this enlightening collection’s triptych.The first section, “A Writer’s Experiments,” reveals that Woolson’s play with familiar ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Witness to Reconstruction

    Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894

    by Kathleen Diffley, Anne E. Boyd, Martin T. Buinicki, Annamaria Formichella Elsden, Janet Gabler-Hover, Caroline Gebhard, Michael Germana, Carolyn Hall, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, John Lowe0, Geraldine Murphy1, Kevin E. O'Donnell2, John H. Pearson3, Timothy Sweet4, Anthony Szczesiul5, Cheryl B. Torsney6 ...
    In the wake of the Civil War, Constance Fenimore Woolson became one of the first northern observers to linger in the defeated states from Virginia to Florida. Born in New Hampshire in 1840 and raised in Ohio, she was the grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper and was gaining success as a writer when she departed in 1873 for St. Augustine. During the next six years, she made her way across the South ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation

    by Louis A Rabb, Roberta S. Maguire, Lauren Walsh, John F Callahan, Carol Friedman, Albert Murray, Greg Thomas, Anne-Katrin Gramberg, Caroline Gebhard, Don Noble, Maurice Pogue, Bert Hitchcock, Sidney Offit, Sanford Pinsker, Paul Devlin, Eugene Holley, Robin DuBlanc, Dr. Barbara A. Baker, PhD, Ms. Jay Lamar, Mr. Gail Buckley, Mr. Elizabeth Mayer Fiedorek ...
    Reimagining America Through the Blues, Jazz, and the Cultural Vision of Albert Murray.This collection consists of essays written by prominent African American literature, jazz, and Albert Murray scholars, reminiscences from Murray protégés and associates, and interviews with Murray himself. It illustrates Murray’s place as a central figure in African American arts and letters and as an American ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Alabama Women

    Their Lives and Times

    by Susan Youngblood Ashmore, Christopher D. Haveman, Susan E. Reynolds, Sharony Green, Harriet E. Amos Doss, Kimberly D. Hill, Paul Pruitt Jr., Sheena Harris, Rebecca S. Montgomery0, Rebecca McIntyre1, Tina Naremore Jones2, Caroline Gebhard3, Staci Simon Glover4, Jeanne Theoharis5, Nancy Grisham Anderson6, Marlene Hunt Rikard7, Jenny Luke8, Patricia A. Sullivan9, Wayne Flynt0 ...
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    Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women’s histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this collection of eighteen biographical essays provides a window into the social, cultural, and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Making Whiteness

    The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

    by Grace Elizabeth Hale ...
    Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity. In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced with the active citizenship of their ex-slaves after the Civil War, white southerners re ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Who Writes for Black Children?

    African American Children’s Literature before 1900

    Edited by Katharine Capshaw, Anna Mae Duane ...
    Until recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Captive Stage

    Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North

    by Douglas A. Jones Jr. ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    In The Captive Stage, Douglas A. Jones, Jr. argues that proslavery ideology remained the dominant mode of racial thought in the antebellum north, even though chattel slavery had virtually disappeared from the region by the turn of the nineteenth century—and that northerners cultivated their proslavery imagination most forcefully in their performance practices. Jones explores how multiple ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Race, Theft, and Ethics

    Property Matters in African American Literature

    by Lovalerie King, Fred Hobson ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    In Race, Theft, and Ethics, Lovalerie King examines African American literature's critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular attention to the stereotypical image of the black thief. She draws on two centuries of African American writing that reflects the manner in which human value became intricately connected with property ownership in American culture, even as ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Philadelphia Stories

    America's Literature of Race and Freedom

    by Samuel Otter ...
    In Philadelphia Stories, Samuel Otter finds literary value, historical significance, and political urgency in a sequence of texts written in and about Philadelphia between the Constitution and the Civil War. Historians such as Gary B. Nash and Julie Winch have chronicled the distinctive social and political space of early national Philadelphia. Yet while individual writers such as Charles Brockden ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Enterprising Youth

    Social Values and Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century American Children’s Literature

    Edited by Monika Elbert ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    "Recommended" by ChoiceEnterprising Youth examines the agenda behind the shaping of nineteenth-century children’s perceptions and world views and the transmission of civic duties and social values to children by adults. The essays in this book reveal the contradictions involved in the perceptions of children as active or passive, as representatives of a new order, or as receptacles of the ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature

    Edited by Ezra Tawil ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature brings together leading scholars to examine the significance of slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day. In addition to stressing how central slavery has been to the study of American culture, this Companion provides students with a broad introduction to an impressive range of authors including Olaudah ... Read more

    $28.69 USD