A Brighter Coming Day
A Brighter Coming Day

Author: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9781558610200

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"Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was the most important and the most popular black feminist abolitionist writer and activist of the nineteenth century. A Brighter Day Coming, the most comprehensive collection of her works, includes all the poems from Harper's extant original volumes, plus many that have never been collected and one that was discovered in manuscript; speeches; and a selection of prose, including excerpts from the novel Iola Leroy and the serialized novel Fancy Etchings, and a generous group of letters ..."--Back cover.

Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted
Iola Leroy, or, Shadows Uplifted

Author: Frances E. W. Harper

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-08-30

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0486141187

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This 1892 work was among the first novels published by an African-American woman. Its striking portrait of life during the Civil War and Reconstruction recounts a mixed-race woman's devotion to uplifting the black community.

Complete Poems of Frances E.W. Harper
Complete Poems of Frances E.W. Harper

Author: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780195052442

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Frances Harper was renowned in her lifetime not only as an activist who rallied on behalf of blacks, women, and the poor, but as a pioneer of the tradition of 'protest' literature, whose immense popularity did much to develop an audience for poetry in America. This collection of her poems is drawn from ten volumes published between 1854 and 1901. Their main issues are oppression, Christianity, and social and moral reform. Consolidating the oral tradition and the ballad form, and merging dramatic details and imagery with a strong political and racial awareness, Harper's poetry represented a distinctly Afro-American discourse that was to inspire generations of black writers.

Discarded Legacy
Discarded Legacy

Author: Melba Joyce Boyd

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780814324899

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In this important study, poet Melba Joyce Boyd analyzes Harper not simply as a feminist and an activist, but as a writer.

Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph
Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph

Author: Frances Harper

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2000-03-10

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9780807062333

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Winner of the College Language Association Book Award Frances Smith Foster has rediscovered three novels by Frances E. W. Harper, the best-known African-American writer of the nineteenth century and author of the classic Iola Leroy. Originally serialized in issues of The Christian Recorder between 1868 and 1888, these works address issues of passing, social responsibility, courtship, sexuality, and temperance, and are the first to have been written specifically for an African-American audience.

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance

Author: Christopher N. Phillips

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-03-07

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1108372813

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The American Renaissance has been a foundational concept in American literary history for nearly a century. The phrase connotes a period, as well as an event, an iconic turning point in the growth of a national literature and a canon of texts that would shape American fiction, poetry, and oratory for generations. F. O. Matthiessen coined the term in 1941 to describe the years 1850–1855, which saw the publications of major writings by Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. This Companion takes up the concept of the American Renaissance and explores its origins, meaning, and longevity. Essays by distinguished scholars move chronologically from the formative reading of American Renaissance authors to the careers of major figures ignored by Matthiessen, including Stowe, Douglass, Harper, and Longfellow. The volume uses the best of current literary studies, from digital humanities to psychoanalytic theory, to illuminate an era that reaches far beyond the Civil War and continues to shape our understanding of American literature.