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Articles 61 - 68 of 68
Full-Text Articles in American Literature
Review: Family Payne, Lee Ann Cline
Review: Family Payne, Lee Ann Cline
Georgia Library Quarterly
Review of the novel "Family Payne," by Jerry Gollihar.
Review: Turtle Summer: A Journal For My Daughter, Evelyne Lamar
Review: Turtle Summer: A Journal For My Daughter, Evelyne Lamar
Georgia Library Quarterly
Review of the young adult book "Turtle Summer: A Journal for My Daughter," by Mary Alice Monroe, with photographs by Barbara J. Bergwerf.
Review: We Are All Welcome Here, Teresa Pacheco
Review: We Are All Welcome Here, Teresa Pacheco
Georgia Library Quarterly
Review of the novel "We Are All Welcome Here," by Elizabeth Berg.
Review: When Light Breaks, Sarah Trowbridge
Review: When Light Breaks, Sarah Trowbridge
Georgia Library Quarterly
Review of the novel "When Light Breaks," by Patti Callahan Henry.
Review: Hitched, Christina Hodgens
Review: Hitched, Christina Hodgens
Georgia Library Quarterly
Review of the novel "Hitched," by Carol Higgins Clark.
Review: Reading Faulkner: Introductions To The First Thirteen Novels, John Mcconnell
Review: Reading Faulkner: Introductions To The First Thirteen Novels, John Mcconnell
Georgia Library Quarterly
Review of the non-fiction book "Reading Faulkner: Introductions to the First Thirteen Novels." Content by Richard Marius, compiled and edited by Nancy Grisham Anderson.
Trouble No More, Anthony Grooms
Trouble No More, Anthony Grooms
Faculty and Research Publications
Second Edition of Anthony Groom's award-winning collection of short stories, Trouble No More, set throughout the American South, presents stories that engage with history, politics, class, race, childhood, and life. They are the personal and public troubles of the African American middle class. These stories are about families, intact and estranged, about ordinary lives in extraordinary times.
"The Future Good And Great Of Our Land": Republican Mothers, Female Authors, And Domesticated Literacy In Antebellum New England, Sarah Robbins
"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."