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"The Future Good And Great Of Our Land": Republican Mothers, Female Authors, And Domesticated Literacy In Antebellum New England, Sarah Robbins Dec 2002

"The Future Good And Great Of Our Land": Republican Mothers, Female Authors, And Domesticated Literacy In Antebellum New England, Sarah Robbins

Faculty and Research Publications

In an 1830s review of Lydia Maria Child's Good Wives published in Sarah Hale's Ladies' Magazine, the enthusiastic commentator quoted above sets Child's latest book within a thriving literary culture that values didactic literature. Acknowledging the importance of a genre I call the domestic literacy narrative, the reviewer confidently asserts that "the prevalent rage for reading" promises to promote not only familial but national well-being-promises, that is, if more books like Child's are regularly published to help train women to direct their family's reading and extract from it principles and behaviors consonant with their country's "future good."


Selected Bibliography For The Study Of Central And East European Culture, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Apr 2002

Selected Bibliography For The Study Of Central And East European Culture, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.


Constructivism And Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Mar 2002

Constructivism And Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.


Chronological Bibliography Of The Works Of Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Lucinda Damon-Bach, Allison Roepsch, Melissa J. Homestead Jan 2002

Chronological Bibliography Of The Works Of Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Lucinda Damon-Bach, Allison Roepsch, Melissa J. Homestead

Department of English: Faculty Publications

This two-part bibliography has been built by consulting the Bibliography of American Literature (BAL) and the bibliographies compiled by Sister Mary Michael Welsh ("Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Her Position in the Literature and Thought of Her Time up to 1860," Ph.D. diss., Catholic University of America, 1937) and Richard Ranus Gidez ("A Study of the Works of Catharine Maria Sedgwick," Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 1958); library cataloging records; and the personal records of Lucinda Damon-Bach and Melissa J. Homestead. In most cases, entries have been confirmed through books, periodicals, photocopies, or microfilm received through interlibrary loan. We were not able …


In Parisian Salons And Boston's Back Streets: Reading Jefferson's "Notes On The State Of Virginia", David W. Lewes Jan 2002

In Parisian Salons And Boston's Back Streets: Reading Jefferson's "Notes On The State Of Virginia", David W. Lewes

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


A Literature Of Combat: African American Prison Writers Of The Vietnam Era, John William Weber Jan 2002

A Literature Of Combat: African American Prison Writers Of The Vietnam Era, John William Weber

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Gilchrist, Ellen Louise, 1935-2024 (Sc 1336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2002

Gilchrist, Ellen Louise, 1935-2024 (Sc 1336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscript Small Collection 1336. Letter written to Kentucky author Ellen L. Gilchrist from Paula Quinn, WKU journalism professor, after a scheduled interview did not materialize. Gilchrist's response is handwritten on the letter. Includes newspaper clipping about Gilchrist's presentation at WKU, and Quinn's explanatory letters, 2001.