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

Carolyn L Karcher

ISBN 10: 0822321637 / ISBN 13: 9780822321637

Edité par Duke University Press Mär 1998, 1998

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Neuware - 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.

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• Titre: The First Woman in the Republic : A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
• Éditeur: Duke University Press Mär 1998
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0822321637
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780822321637
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 253 L x 174 H x 38 P (en millimètres) 253 millimètres de largeur par 174 millimètres de hauteur par 38 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 1411 grammes

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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.

À propos de l?auteur

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