American Quaker Romances - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Quaker Romances write by Carolina Fernández Rodríguez. This book was released on 2021-12-20. American Quaker Romances available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Quaker characters have peopled many an American literary work—most notably, "Uncle Tom’s Cabin"—as Quakerism has been historically associated with progressive attitudes and the advancement of social justice. With the rise in recent years of the Christian romance market, dominated by American Evangelical companies, there has been a renewed interest in fictional Quakers. In the historical Quaker romances analyzed in this book, Quaker heroines often devote time to spiritual considerations, advocate the sanctity of marriage and promote traditional family values. However, their concern with social justice also leads them to engage in subversive behavior and to question the status quo, as illustrated by heroines who are active on the Underground Railroad or are seen organizing the Seneca Falls convention. Though relatively liberal in terms of gender, Quaker romances are considerably less progressive when it comes to race relations. Thus, they reflect America’s conflicted relationship with its history of race and gender abuse, and the country’s tendency to both resist and advocate social change. Ultimately, Quaker romances reinforce the myth of America as a White and Christian nation, here embodied by the Quaker heroine, the all-powerful savior who rescues Native Americans, African Americans and Jews while conquering the hero’s heart.
Journey of the Wild Geese
Journey of the Wild Geese - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Journey of the Wild Geese write by Madeleine Yaude Stephenson. This book was released on 1999. Journey of the Wild Geese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Quakers and the American Family
Quakers and the American Family - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quakers and the American Family write by Barry Levy. This book was released on 1988. Quakers and the American Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This brilliant study shows the pivotal role the Quakers played in the origins and development of America's family ideology. Levy argues that the Quakers brought a new vision of family and social life to America--one that contrasted sharply with the harsh, formal world of the New England Puritans. The Quakers stressed affection, friendship and hospitality, the importance of women in the home, and the value of self-disciplined, non-coercive childrearing. This book explains how and why the Quakers have had such a profound cultural impact on America and what the Quakers' experience with their own radical family system tells us about American families.
Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction
Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction write by Hsu-Ming Teo. This book was released on 2024-06-13. Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead imagining alternative histories. The novelists discussed employ the generic conventions of romance to narrate their understanding of historical and contemporary injustice and to reflect upon women’s achievements and the price they paid for autonomy and a life of public purpose. The volume seeks, firstly, to discuss the work of revision or reparation being performed by romantic historical fiction and, secondly, to analyse how the past is being repurposed for use in the present. It contends that the discourses and genre of romance work to provide a reparative reading of the past, but there are limitations and entrenched problems in such readings.
The Quakers of New Garden
The Quakers of New Garden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Quakers of New Garden write by Claire A. Sanders. This book was released on 2012. The Quakers of New Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Follows the stories of four Quaker women as they struggle with affairs of the heart.
