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Book The Boarding School  Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils

Download or read book The Boarding School Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils written by Hannah Webster Foster and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boarding School by Hannah Webster Foster is a set of lessons that aim to teach manners and conduct that is appropriate of younger ladies in boarding schools.

Book The Boarding School

Download or read book The Boarding School written by Hannah Webster Foster and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early American Writing

Download or read book Early American Writing written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn's anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literature—including voices black and white, male and female, Hispanic, French, and Native American. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Book Boston s Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them

Download or read book Boston s Oldest Buildings and Where to Find Them written by Joseph M. Bagley and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A guidebook for Boston's 50 oldest buildings. Written in a conversational manner that does not bog the reader down in technical jargon, but allows them to see the history of Boston through the lens of its oldest structures while appreciating decades of efforts to preserve its built environment"--

Book The Cambridge Guide to Women s Writing in English

Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Women s Writing in English written by Lorna Sage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.

Book The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture

Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture written by Jared Gardner and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countering assumptions about early American print culture and challenging our scholarly fixation on the novel, Jared Gardner reimagines the early American magazine as a rich literary culture that operated as a model for nation-building by celebrating editorship over authorship and serving as a virtual salon in which citizens were invited to share their different perspectives. The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture reexamines early magazines and their reach to show how magazine culture was multivocal and presented a porous distinction between author and reader, as opposed to novel culture, which imposed a one-sided authorial voice and restricted the agency of the reader.

Book The Coquette

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hannah W. Foster
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1987-02-19
  • ISBN : 0199840385
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book The Coquette written by Hannah W. Foster and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987-02-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coquette tells the much-publicized story of the seduction and death of Elizabeth Whitman, a poet from Hartford, Connecticut. Written as a series of letters--between the heroine and her friends and lovers--it describes her long, tortuous courtship by two men, neither of whom perfectly suits her. Eliza Wharton (as Whitman is called in the novel) wavers between Major Sanford, a charming but insincere man, and the Reverend Boyer, a bore who wants to marry her. When, in her mid-30s, Wharton finds herself suddenly abandoned when both men marry other women, she willfully enters into an adulterous relationship with Sanford and becomes pregnant. Alone and dejected, she dies in childbirth at a roadside inn. Eliza Wharton, whose real-life counterpart was distantly related to Hannah Foster's husband, was one of the first women in American fiction to emerge as a real person facing a dilemma in her life. In her Introduction, Davidson discusses the parallels between Elizabeth Whitman and the fictional Eliza Wharton. She shows the limitations placed on women in the 18th century and the attempts of one woman to rebel against those limitations.

Book The Role of Female Seminaries on the Road to Social Justice for Women

Download or read book The Role of Female Seminaries on the Road to Social Justice for Women written by Kristen Welch and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, female seminaries and their antecedents, the female academies, were crucial first institutions that played a vital role in liberating women from the "home sphere," a locus that was the primary domain of Euro-American women. The female seminaries founded by Native Americans and African Americans had different founding rationales but also played a key role in empowering women. On the whole, the initial intent of these schools was to prepare women for their proper role in American society as wives and mothers. An unintended effect, however, was to prepare women for the first socially accepted profession for women: teaching. Thus equipped, women played a crucial role in the development of American education at all levels while achieving varying degrees of social justice for themselves and other groups through engagement in the reform movements of their times--including women's suffrage, abolition, temperance, and mental health reform. By recapturing the role religion played in shaping education for women, Welch and Ruelas offer a refreshing take on history that draws on several primary texts and details more than one hundred female seminaries and academies opened in the United States.

Book Correspondence and American Literature  1770   1865

Download or read book Correspondence and American Literature 1770 1865 written by Elizabeth Hewitt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Hewitt uncovers the centrality of letter-writing to antebellum American literature. She argues that many canonical American authors turned to the epistolary form as an idealised genre through which to consider the challenges of American democracy before the Civil War. The letter was the vital technology of social intercourse in the nineteenth century and was adopted as an exemplary genre in which authors from Crevecoeur and Adams through Jefferson, to Emerson, Melville, Dickinson and Whitman, could theorise the social and political themes that were so crucial to their respective literary projects. They interrogated the political possibilities of social intercourse through the practice and analysis of correspondence. Hewitt argues that although correspondence is generally only conceived as a biographical archive, it must instead be understood as a significant genre through which these early authors made sense of social and political relations in the nation.

Book Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity  1780 1850

Download or read book Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity 1780 1850 written by Annika Bautz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes an important contribution to transatlantic literary studies and an emerging body of work on identity formation and print culture in the Atlantic world. The collection identifies the ways in which historically-situated but malleable subjectivities engage with popular and pressing debates about class, slavery, natural knowledge, democracy, and religion. In addition, the book also considers the ways in which material texts and genres, including, for example, the essay, the guidebook, the travel narrative, the periodical, the novel, and the poem, can be scrutinized in relation to historically-situated transatlantic transitions, transformations, and border crossings. The volume is underpinned by a thorough examination of historical and conceptual frameworks and prioritizes notions of circulation and exchange, as opposed to transfer and continuance, in its analysis of authors, texts, and ideas. The collection is concerned with the movement of people, texts, and ideas in the currents of transatlantic markets and politics, taking a fresh look at a range of canonical and popular writers of the period, including Austen, Poe, Crèvecoeur, Brockden Brown, Sedgwick, Hemans, Bulwer-Lytton, Dickens, and Melville. In different ways, the essays gathered together here are concerned with the potentially empowering realities of the transitive, circulatory, and contingent experiences of transatlantic literary and cultural production as they are manifest in the long nineteenth century.

Book Cobbett s Political Register

Download or read book Cobbett s Political Register written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Truth s Ragged Edge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip F. Gura
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2013-04-09
  • ISBN : 0809094452
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Truth s Ragged Edge written by Philip F. Gura and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A history of the early American novel, focusing on its origins in and relationship with American religion"-- Provided by publisher.

Book Cobbett s Annual Register

Download or read book Cobbett s Annual Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Essential Margaret Fuller

Download or read book The Essential Margaret Fuller written by Margaret Fuller and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together along with generous selections from Fuller's Dial essays, New York essays, Italian dispatches, and unpublished journals. Special features are the complete text of Fuller's famous "Autobiographical Romance" (never before reprinted in its entirety) and nineteen of her poems, edited from her manuscripts. All of Fuller's major texts are completely annotated, with special attention to her literary and historical sources, as well as her knowledge of American Indian.

Book North Carolina Schools and Academies  1790 1840

Download or read book North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790 1840 written by Charles Lee Coon and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette

Download or read book The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette written by William Wells Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown’s The Power of Sympathy (1789) and Foster’s The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in the United States. Both novels reflect the eighteenth-century preoccupation with the role of women as safekeepers of the young country’s morality.

Book A Calculating People

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia Cline Cohen
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-07-22
  • ISBN : 1134958951
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book A Calculating People written by Patricia Cline Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now back in print, A Calculating People reveals how numeracy profoundly shaped the character of society in the early republic and provides a wholly original perspective on the development of modern America.