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Author: Fiona Macdonald
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9780872265660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the everyday life of women in the United States during the 1800s, contrasting society's ideal view of women with their real lives.
Author: Margaret Fuller
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 250
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bert James Loewenberg
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0271038241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frances B. Cogan
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2010-08-01
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0820337943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur image of nineteenth-century American women is generally divided into two broad classifications: victims and revolutionaries. This divide has served the purposes of modern feminists well, allowing them to claim feminism as the only viable role model for women of the nineteenth century. In All-American Girl, however, Frances B. Cogan identifies amid these extremes a third ideal of femininity: the “Real Woman.” Cogan's Real Woman exists in advice books and manuals, as well as in magazine short stories whose characters did not dedicate their lives to passivity or demand the vote. Appearing in the popular reading of middle-class America from 1842 to 1880, these women embodied qualities that neither the “True Women”—conventional ladies of leisure—nor the early feminists fully advocated, such as intelligence, physical fitness, self sufficiency, economic self-reliance, judicious marriage, and a balance between self and family. Cogan's All-American Girl reveals a system of feminine values that demanded women be neither idle nor militant.
Author: Elaine Showalter
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9780813523934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the Publisher: A new mother longing to write is judged "hysterical" and confined to her bedroom where she slowly loses herself in horrific fantasy. A young girl stirred by two beings--a handsome young man and an ethereal white heron--is forced to make a choice between them. A love affair quashed by convention ignites during a sudden storm. These tales of remarkable and ordinary lives in nineteenth-century America are told throughout women's voices that call out from the kitchen hearth, the solitary room, the prison cell. Stories by Louisa May Alcott, Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, and Edith Wharton, as well as by others less familiar, reveal a universe of emotions hidden beneath parochial scenes. American writers claimed the short story as their national genre in the nineteenth century, and women writers made it the most important outlet for their particular experiences. A unique selection, with an introduction, notes, selected criticism, and a chronology of the authors' lives and times.
Author: Nancy M. Theriot
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780813131788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: June E. Hahner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 1998-08-01
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0585279349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe nineteenth century was a period of peak popularity for travel to Latin America, where a new political independence was accompanied by loosened travel restrictions. Such expeditions resulted in numerous travel accounts, most by men. However, because this period was a time of significant change and exploration, a small but growing minority of female voyagers also portrayed the people and places that they encountered. Women through Women's Eyes draws from ten insightful accounts by female visitors to Latin America in the nineteenth century. These firsthand tales bring a number of Latin American women into focus: nuns, market women, plantation workers, the wives and daughters of landowners and politicians, and even a heroine of the independence movement. Questions of family life, religion, women's labor, and education are addressed, in addition to the interrelationships of men and women within the structure of Latin American societies. Women through Women's Eyes is a perceptive look at Latin American women from various walks of life during this period. Within these pages, the reader catches lengthy glimpses of the women on both sides of the travel accounts-author and subject-and thereby may examine them all and their societies close-up.
Author: Beth Lynne Lueck
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHighlights the social and textual complexity of the transatlantic world for American women writers
Author: Jennifer Putzi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-12-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781107083981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA History of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry is the first book to construct a coherent history of the field and focus entirely on women's poetry of the period. With contributions from some of the most prominent scholars of nineteenth-century American literature, it explores a wide variety of authors, texts, and methodological approaches. Organized into three chronological sections, the essays examine multiple genres of poetry, consider poems circulated in various manuscript and print venues, and propose alternative ways of narrating literary history. From these essays, a rich story emerges about a diverse poetics that was once immensely popular but has since been forgotten. This History confirms that the field has advanced far beyond the recovery of select individual poets. It will be an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and critics of both the literature and the history of this era.
Author: William Barney
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0470998466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to 19th-Century America is an authoritative overview of current historiographical developments and major themes in the history of nineteenth-century America. Twenty-seven scholars, all specialists in their own thematic areas, examine the key debates and historiography. A thematic and chronological organization brings together the major time periods, politics, the Civil War, economy, and social and cultural history of the nineteenth century. Written with the general reader in mind, each essay surveys the historical research, the emerging concerns, and assesses the future direction of scholarship. Complete coverage of all the major themes and current debates in nineteenth-century US history assessing the state of the scholarship and future concerns. 24 original essays by leading experts in nineteenth-century American history complete with up-to-date bibliographies. Chronological and thematic organization covers both traditional and contemporary fields of research - politics, periods, economy, class formation, ethnicity, gender roles, regions, culture and ideas.
