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Articles 1 - 27 of 27
Full-Text Articles in American Literature
"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."
The Source Of Hip, Shelly J. Eversley
The Source Of Hip, Shelly J. Eversley
Publications and Research
This essay situates Norman Mailer's "The White Negro" (1957) and Jack Keroauc's The Subterraneans (1958) in the context of 1950s racial integration and the transformative potential of interracial sex. It argues that both authors' terms, "beat" and "hip," depend on the idea of "the Negro" whose status allows them to imagine a counter culture essential to their midcentury articulations of individual integrity and creative freedom.
Selected Bibliography For The Study Of Central And East European Culture, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek
Selected Bibliography For The Study Of Central And East European Culture, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek
CLCWeb Library
No abstract provided.
John Boyle O'Reilly And Moondyne (1878), Susanna Ashton
John Boyle O'Reilly And Moondyne (1878), Susanna Ashton
Publications
Arrested for treason against the British Crown and deported to the penal colonies of Australia, the Irish revolutionary John Boyle O'Reilly managed to escape to the United States and within a few years became one of Boston's most prominent political and literary figures, one of the best known Irish immigrants in the United States and one of the most charismatic individuals of the late nineteenth century. He wrote some of the most popular poetry of the period as well as one obscure but swashbuckling novel, Moondyne (1878), based in part upon the spectacular events of his own life. O Reilly …
Constructivism And Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek
Constructivism And Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek
CLCWeb Library
No abstract provided.
Selected Journals Of Media And Communication Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek
Selected Journals Of Media And Communication Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek
CLCWeb Library
No abstract provided.
Ann Petry: The Narrows, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Ann Petry: The Narrows, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Ann Petry: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Ann Petry: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Ann Petry: Country Place, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Ann Petry: Country Place, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Ann Petry: Miss Muriel And Other Stories, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Ann Petry: Miss Muriel And Other Stories, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Ann Petry: The Street, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Ann Petry: The Street, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Toni Morrison: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Toni Morrison: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Spiritual, Blues, And Jazz People In African American Fiction, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Spiritual, Blues, And Jazz People In African American Fiction, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Toni Morrison: Sula, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Toni Morrison: Sula, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd
Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series
No abstract provided.
Testimony, Landscape And The West: A Conversation With Stephen Trimble, David Thomas Sumner
Testimony, Landscape And The West: A Conversation With Stephen Trimble, David Thomas Sumner
Faculty Publications
This interview with Stephen Trimble is part of a series of conversations with contemporary western writers about the ethical and cultural implications of nature writing.
Activism, Fly Fishing, And Fiction: A Conversation With David James Duncan, David Thomas Sumner
Activism, Fly Fishing, And Fiction: A Conversation With David James Duncan, David Thomas Sumner
Faculty Publications
This interview with David James Duncan is part of a series of conversations with contemporary western writers about the ethical and cultural implications of nature writing.
Testimony, Refuge, And The Sense Of Place: A Conversation With Terry Tempest Williams, David Thomas Sumner
Testimony, Refuge, And The Sense Of Place: A Conversation With Terry Tempest Williams, David Thomas Sumner
Faculty Publications
This interview with Terry Tempest Williams is part of a series of conversations with contemporary western writers about the ethical and cultural implications of nature writing.
Screening Readerly Pleasures: Modernism, Melodrama, And Mass Markets In If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, Peter Lurie
Screening Readerly Pleasures: Modernism, Melodrama, And Mass Markets In If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, Peter Lurie
English Faculty Publications
Although Faulkner had already, with his earlier fiction, established himself as a practitioner of a rarefied, regional modernism, in If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem he addresses the reading tastes and pleasures of the commercial market. Commenting as he does on the doctor and his wife’s tastes in the novel’s opening, Faulkner reveals his disdain for people who prefer the culture industry’s generic products to something more personal or idiosyncratic. Yet as his potential audience, those people or their tastes were of interest to Faulkner in 1939, the year the novel appeared. Following extended periods working in Hollywood, as well as …
Race Relations, Suzanne W. Jones
Race Relations, Suzanne W. Jones
English Faculty Publications
Since the early nineteenth century, when white southern writers began to defend slavery, relationships between blacks and whites became a central concern in southern literature. Many nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century works by white writers exacerbated racial prejudice by reproducing southern white society's racist ideology. But other southern writers, both white and black, have attempted to redress this problem by using literature to dismantle stereotypes and to imagine new relationships. The results of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement speeded up the process, suggesting new plots, new endings, and new points of view to southern writers of both races.
Chronological Bibliography Of The Works Of Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Lucinda Damon-Bach, Allison Roepsch, Melissa J. Homestead
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 …
Behind The Veil? Catharine Sedgwick And Anonymous Publication, Melissa J. Homestead
Behind The Veil? Catharine Sedgwick And Anonymous Publication, Melissa J. Homestead
Department of English: Faculty Publications
Catharine Sedgwick's name appeared on the title page of only one of her books published during her lifetime, her 1835 Tales and Sketches, a volume collecting pieces that had originally appeared in the annually published "gift books" in the preceding nine years. Sedgwick is the earliest writer included in Mary Kelley's influential book on women's authorship, Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America, and Kelley claims that women writers published anonymously or pseudonymously because of the great anxiety that appearing in public through the medium of print caused them: "The literary domestics could write and, as …
We Weren’T Always White: Race And Ethnicity In Italian/American Literature, Fred L. Gardaphé
We Weren’T Always White: Race And Ethnicity In Italian/American Literature, Fred L. Gardaphé
Publications and Research
No abstract provided.
Abigail Scott Duniway, Debra Shein
Abigail Scott Duniway, Debra Shein
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
In 1895, as she launched a new journal dedicated to bringing equal rights to all the women of America, Abigail Scott Duniway had already been a key figure in the national woman’s movement for over two decades. And during those years, dramatic changes had been taking place. As she wrote, “though ‘Liberty for all the inhabitants of the land’ has not yet been secured, we have made much permanent progress, and now nobody doubts our ultimate success” (“Salutatory” PE 16 Aug. 1895). At the beginning of Duniway’s career, women’s rights were severely restricted. With few exceptions, marriage brought an end …
William Kittredge, Ron Mcfarland
William Kittredge, Ron Mcfarland
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
Equally at home whether speaking before the Humanities Colloquium at Cedar City, Utah, the Nature Conservancy at Bend, Oregon, the Regional Newswriting Colloquium at Salt Lake City, or the Wyoming Outdoor Council at Sheridan, William (Bill) Kittredge has emerged over the past thirty years as one of the most prolific and outspoken exponents of the New West. He has edited or co-edited seven anthologies ranging in nature from Great Action Stories (1977) and Stories into Film (1979) to the monumental Montana compilation, The Last Best Place (1988) and The Portable Western Reader (1997). He is the author of two notable …
Reading Louis L'Amour's Hondo, Joseph Mills
Reading Louis L'Amour's Hondo, Joseph Mills
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
I don't give a damn what anyone else thinks, I know it’s literature and I know it will be read 100 years from now.
—Louis L'Amour on his work (Jackson 168)
In 1946, publisher and editor Leo Margulies invited Louis L’Amour to a party in New York. Each of them had a problem. L’Amour, having served in the Army during World War II, had recently returned to the States to discover the pulp fiction markets in which he had established himself as a writer were changing. In the 1930s, he had sold numerous adventure, sports, and detective stories to magazines …
Frank Chin, John Charles Goshert
Frank Chin, John Charles Goshert
Western Writers Series Digital Editions
Born in Berkeley in 1940, Frank Chin lived in the Motherlode country of California’s Sierra foothills during the Second World War before returning to the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended the University of California at Berkeley as an English major, but was drawn away to work for railroad companies throughout the west. Such early experiences of movement and transience would provide the foundations for the shifting settings of much of his drama, fiction, and criticism that would follow; additionally, this transience would also underlie the complex tone, treatment, and perception of Asian American identity that characterizes his work and …
Gilchrist, Ellen Louise, 1935-2024 (Sc 1336), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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.