The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child - Couverture souple

Karcher, Carolyn L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822321637 ISBN 13 : 9780822321637

Editeur : Duke University Press, 1998

Synopsis

For half a century Lydia Maria Child was a household name in the United States. Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Lydia Maria Child did not figure prominently as a pathbreaker. Although best known today for having edited Harriet A. Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, she pioneered almost every department of nineteenth-century American letters-the historical novel, the short story, children's literature, the domestic advice book, women's history, antislavery fiction, journalism, and the literature of aging. Offering a panoramic view of a nation and culture in flux, this innovative cultural biography (originally published by Duke University Press in 1994) recreates the world as well as the life of a major nineteenth-figure whose career as a writer and social reformer encompassed issues central to American history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Carolyn L. Karcher is Professor of English, American Studies, and Women's Studies at Temple University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822321637
• ISBN 13: 9780822321637
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 832
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