"Maddened by Wine and by Passion": The Construction of Gender and Race in Nineteenth-century American Temperance Literature - 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 "Maddened by Wine and by Passion": The Construction of Gender and Race in Nineteenth-century American Temperance Literature write by Heather Joy Thompson-Gillis. This book was released on 2007. "Maddened by Wine and by Passion": The Construction of Gender and Race in Nineteenth-century American Temperance Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This paper explores the function of gender and race in nineteenth-century American temperance literature, with special attention given to the role of women in temperance discourse and within the reform movement. Chapter One discusses the function of the saloon in temperance literature, focusing on Walt Whitman's Franklin Evans and T.S. Arthur's Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, two of the reform's most widely read publications. Maria Lamas' The Glass and Henrietta Rose's Nora Wilmot: A Tale of Temperance and Women's Rights are the focus of Chapter Two, which analyzes the less popular female authored fiction of the movement. Chapter Three discusses the function of race in Frances E.W. Harper's recently discovered temperance texts "The Two Offers" and Sowing and Reaping. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union is also explored in regards to their ability to challenge traditional gender roles and redefine women's position in the public sphere.
The Oxford History of the Novel in English
The Oxford History of the Novel in English - 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 Oxford History of the Novel in English write by J. Gerald Kennedy. This book was released on 2014-06-26. The Oxford History of the Novel in English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the "literary" novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution, and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements, traditions, and tendencies. In thirty-four essays, this volume reconstructs the emergence and early cultivation of the novel in the United States. Contributors discuss precursors to the U.S. novel that appeared as colonial histories, autobiographies, diaries, and narratives of Indian captivity, religious conversion, and slavery, while paying attention to the entangled literary relations that gave way to a distinctly American cultural identity. The Puritan past, more than two centuries of Indian wars, the American Revolution, and the exploration of the West all inspired fictions of American struggle and self-discovery. A fragmented national publishing landscape comprised of small, local presses often disseminating odd, experimental forms eventually gave rise to major houses in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia and a consequently robust culture of letters. "Dime novels", literary magazines, innovative print technology, and even favorable postal rates contributed to the burgeoning domestic book trade in place by the time of the Missouri Compromise. Contributors weigh novelists of this period alongside their most enduring fictional works to reveal how even the most "American" of novels sometimes confronted the inhuman practices upon which the promise of the new republic had been made to depend. Similarly, the volume also looks at efforts made to extend American interests into the wider world beyond the nation's borders, and it thoroughly documents the emergence of novels projecting those imperial aspirations.
The American Novel to 1870
The American Novel to 1870 - 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 American Novel to 1870 write by J. Gerald Kennedy. This book was released on 2014. The American Novel to 1870 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The American Revolution and the Civil War bracket roughly eight decades of formative change in a republic created in 1776 by a gesture that was both rhetorical and performative. The subsequent construction of U.S. national identity influenced virtually all art forms, especially prose fiction, until internal conflict disrupted the project of nation-building. This volume reassesses, in an authoritative way, the principal forms and features of the emerging American novel. It will include chapters on: the beginnings of the novel in the US; the novel and nation-building; the publishing industry; leading novelists of Antebellum America; eminent early American novels; cultural influences on the novel; and subgenres within the novel form during this period. This book is the first of the three proposed US volumes that will make up Oxford's ambitious new twelve-volume literary resource, The Oxford History of the Novel in English (OHONE), a venture being commissioned and administered on both sides of the Atlantic.
Well-Tempered Women
Well-Tempered Women - 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 Well-Tempered Women write by Carol Mattingly. This book was released on 1998. Well-Tempered Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this richly illustrated study, Carol Mattingly examines the rhetoric of the temperance movement, the largest political movement of women in the nineteenth century. Tapping previously unexplored sources, Mattingly uncovers new voices and different perspectives, thus greatly expanding our knowledge of temperance women in particular and of nineteenth-century women and women's rhetoric in general. Her scope is broad: she looks at temperance fiction, newspaper accounts of meetings and speeches, autobiographical and biographical accounts, and minutes of national and state temperance meetings. The women's temperance movement was first and foremost an effort by women to improve the lives of women. Twentieth-centuty scholars often dismiss temperance women as conservative and complicit in their own oppression. As Mattingly demonstrate, however, the opposite is true: temperance women made purposeful rhetorical choices in their efforts to improve the lives of women. They carefully considered the life circumstances of all women and sought to raise consciousness and achieve reform in an effective manner. And they were effective, gaining legal, political, and social improvements for women as they became the most influential and most successful group of women reformers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mattingly finds that, for a large number of women who were unhappy with their status in the nineteenth century, the temperance movement provided an avenue for change. Examining the choices these women made in their efforts to better conditions for women, Mattingly looks first at oral rhetoric among nineteenth-century temperance women. She examines the early temperance speeches of activists like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who later chose to concentrate their effort in the suffrage organizations, and those who continued to work on behalf of women primarily through the temperance topic, such as Amelia Bloomer and Clarina Howard Nichols. Finally, she examines the rhetoric of members of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union—the largest organization of women in the nineteenth century. Mattingly then turns to the rhetoric from perspectives outside those of mainstream, middle-class women. She focuses on racial conflicts and alliances as an increasingly diverse membership threatened the unity and harmony in the WCTU. Her primary source for this discussion is contemporary newspaper accounts of temperance speeches. Fiction by temperance writers also proves to be a fertile source for Mattingly's investigation. Insisting on greater equality between men and women, this fiction candidly portrayed injustice toward women. Through the temperance issue, Mattingly discovers, women could broach otherwise clandestine topics openly. She also finds that many of the concerns of nineteenth-century temperance women are remarkably similar to concerns of today’s feminists.
Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature - 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 Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature write by J. Husband. This book was released on 2010-02-01. Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations of "free labor" in mid-nineteenth-century America. Husband shows how the images of families split apart by slavery, circulated primarily by women leaders, proved to be the most powerful weapon in the antislavery cultural campaign and ultimately turned the nation against slavery. She also reveals the ways in which the sentimental narratives and icons that constituted the "family protection campaign" powerfully influenced Americans sense of the role of government, gender, and race in industrializing America. Chapters examine the writings of ardent abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, non-activist sympathizers, and those actively hostile to but deeply immersed in antislavery activism including Nathaniel Hawthorne.
