Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910

Author: Maud Howe Elliott

Publisher:

Published: 2016-05-18

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9781357143794

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The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe
The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe

Author: Elaine Showalter

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-03-08

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1451645902

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"Authorship of the Battle Hymn of the Republic made [19th-century aspiring poet and playwright Julia Ward Lowe] celebrated and revered. But Julia was also continuing to fight a civil war at home; she became a pacifist, suffragist, and world traveler. She came into her own as a tireless campaigner for women's rights and social reform ... Elaine Showalter tells the story of Howe's determined self-creation and brings to life the society she inhabited and the obstacles she overcame"--Amazon.com.

The Hermaphrodite
The Hermaphrodite

Author: Julia Ward Howe

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2004-12-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780803204270

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Written in the 1840s and published here for the first time, Julia Ward Howe's novel about a hermaphrodite is unlike anything of its time--or, in truth, of our own. Narrated by Laurence, who is raised and lives as a man, is loved by men and women alike, and can respond to neither, this unconventional story explores the understanding "that fervent hearts must borrow the disguise of art, if they would win the right to express, in any outward form, the internal fire that consumes them." Laurence describes his repudiation by his family, his involvement with an attractive widow, his subsequent wanderings and eventual attachment to a sixteen-year-old boy, his own tutelage by a Roman nobleman and his sisters, and his ultimate reunion with his early love. His is a story unique in nineteenth-century American letters, at once a remarkable reflection of a largely hidden inner life and a richly imagined tale of coming of age at odds with one's culture. Howe wrote "The Hermaphrodite" when her own marriage was challenged by her husband's affection for another man--and when prevailing notions regarding a woman's appropriate role in patriarchal structures threatened Howe's intellectual and emotional survival. The novel allowed Howe, and will now allow her readers, to occupy a speculative realm otherwise inaccessible in her historical moment.

Hungry Heart
Hungry Heart

Author: Gary Williams

Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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Reexamines the early literary career of Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910), best remembered as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."

Julia Ward Howe - Influential Women in History
Julia Ward Howe - Influential Women in History

Author: Anon

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2016-09-06

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13: 1473353793

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This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features Julia Ward Howe, an American feminist, abolitionist, social reformer and writer (1819 - 1910).

A Fiery Gospel
A Fiery Gospel

Author: Richard M. Gamble

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2019-05-15

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1501736426

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Since its composition in Washington's Willard Hotel in 1861, Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" has been used to make America and its wars sacred. Few Americans reflect on its violent and redemptive imagery, drawn freely from prophetic passages of the Old and New Testaments, and fewer still think about the implications of that apocalyptic language for how Americans interpret who they are and what they owe the world. In A Fiery Gospel, Richard M. Gamble describes how this camp-meeting tune, paired with Howe's evocative lyrics, became one of the most effective instruments of religious nationalism. He takes the reader back to the song's origins during the Civil War, and reveals how those political and military circumstances launched the song's incredible career in American public life. Gamble deftly considers the idea behind the song—humming the tune, reading the music for us—all while reveling in the multiplicity of meanings of and uses to which Howe's lyrics have been put. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" has been versatile enough to match the needs of Civil Rights activists and conservative nationalists, war hawks and peaceniks, as well as Europeans and Americans. This varied career shows readers much about the shifting shape of American righteousness. Yet it is, argues Gamble, the creator of the song herself—her Abolitionist household, Unitarian theology, and Romantic and nationalist sensibilities—that is the true conductor of this most American of war songs. A Fiery Gospel depicts most vividly the surprising genealogy of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," and its sure and certain position as a cultural piece in the uncertain amalgam that was and is American civil religion.