Activist sentiments : reading Black women in the nineteenth century / P. Gabrielle Foreman.
This book shows how nineteenth-century Black women writers engaged radical reform, sentiment and their various readerships. It includes readings of the literary and activist work of Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Frances E. W. Harper, Victoria Earle Matthews, and Amelia E. Johnson. Part literary cr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2009]
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| Series: | New Black studies series.
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| Summary: | This book shows how nineteenth-century Black women writers engaged radical reform, sentiment and their various readerships. It includes readings of the literary and activist work of Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Frances E. W. Harper, Victoria Earle Matthews, and Amelia E. Johnson. Part literary criticism and part cultural history, it examines nineteenth-century social, political, and representational literacies and reading practices. It reveals how Black women's complex and confrontational commentary--often expressed directly in their journalistic prose and organizational involvement--emerges in their sentimental, and simultaneously political, literary production. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780252034749 9780252076640 0252034740 0252076648 |