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  • Witness to Reconstruction

    Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation

    The first book-length study of the writings, work, and life of Renaissance man and Alabama native Albert MurrayThis 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 ... Leer más

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  • Alabama Women

    Their Lives and Times

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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 ... Leer más

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  • Secret Histories

    A New Era in Constance Fenimore Woolson Scholarship

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Die Freiheit, die ich meine

    Gewissensfreiheit

    Im Grundgesetz wird uns Gewissensfreiheit garantiert. Aber wo sitzt das Gewissen und in wie weit sollte man auf es hören? Warum ist das Gewissen politisch? Und wie sieht Gewissensfreiheit aus, wenn die Grenzen verschwimmen oder Gefühle auf die Realität treffen? Solche und andere Fragen stellen sich die 40 Autor*innen in dieser Anthologie zur Gewissensfreiheit. Ihre Gedanken, Gefühle und Erlebnisse ... Leer más

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  • Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem

    African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Making Whiteness

    The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Who Writes for Black Children?

    African American Children’s Literature before 1900

    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Captive Stage

    Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Philadelphia Stories

    America's Literature of Race and Freedom

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    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 ... Leer más

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  • Race, Theft, and Ethics

    Property Matters in African American Literature

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Enterprising Youth

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

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    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 ... Leer más

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