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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

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

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.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 19 (August 31, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring "Conspiracy Theory" by Natasha Bernstein.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 18 (August 24, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring "Dictatorship at Your Doorstep" by James R. Elwood and Jarret B. Wollstein and poetry by David Spiering.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 16 (August 10, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring poems by Cyril A. Dostal and found art by Hugo Pontes.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 15 (August 3, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 17 (August 17, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring poetry by David Napolin and "Who Cares?" by Bern Porter.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 14 (July 15, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

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The Bulletin of the Scholars of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring:

Zippy the Pinhead cover art by Bill Griffith
An Illustrated Introduction to Ray Johnson 1927-1995 by Mark Bloch

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 13 (July 1, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring art by Sheila Holtz and poetry by Nguyen Ducmanh.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 12 (June 15, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring "How Many Times Can the System Repeat Itself Before the Metaphysical Takes Over" by Gregory Famum and mail art by CA Conrad.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 11 (June 1, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring mail art by Gerry M. and "Days in the Early Eighties" by Bern Porter.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 9 (May 1, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring art by Bern Porter and poetry by Sheila Holtz.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 10 (May 15, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring mail art by Maureen Neville and collage by Sheila Holtz.

Friends Or Foes? How 19th Century Lds Literature Supported Manifest Destiny, Richard Edward West

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

"They felt that the Indians had to become civilized according to non-Indian standards. They did not know or understand the Indians' way of life nor did they want to."

-Idaho Indians: Tribal Histories

This quote refers to the United States government, but it could have also referred to many nineteenth-century members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). This religion, centered in Salt Lake City, Utah, was one of the faiths that most influenced the Native Americans in the western United States. The LDS settlers and Native Americans had an unusual relationship - one that was very …

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

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Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 7 (April 1, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring "Quantum Tantra" by Nick Herbert and "Do Art" by Nguyen Ducmanh.

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

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Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 6 (March 15, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring poetry by George Gott and "The Document" by Blair Ewing.

Selected Journals Of Media And Communication Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

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Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 4 (February 15, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring "Global Economy: The Mark of the Beast?" by Sheila Holtz.

Bern Porter International: Volume 6 Number 5 (March 1, 2002), Bern Porter, Sheila Holtz, Natasha Bernstein

Newsletters

A Literary Newsletter and Bulletin of the Institute of Advanced Thinking

Featuring poetry by Joelle Francis and a Scholars report by Daniel A. Russell.

The Associative Style In Warren And Ashbery, John Burt

Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren and John Ashbery write out of different backgrounds and quite often appeal to different audiences, but each is a master of the "associative style." A comparative look at both poets is highly instructive and serves to deepen our appreciation of their art.

Ann Petry: The Narrows, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

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Ann Petry: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

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Ann Petry: Country Place, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

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Ann Petry: Miss Muriel And Other Stories, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

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Ann Petry: The Street, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

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Toni Morrison: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

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Spiritual, Blues, And Jazz People In African American Fiction, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

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