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Author |
: David B. Sachsman |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2019-06-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429515767 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429515766 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Antebellum Press by : David B. Sachsman
The Antebellum Press: Setting the Stage for Civil War reveals the critical role of journalism in the years leading up to America’s deadliest conflict by exploring the events that foreshadowed and, in some ways, contributed directly to the outbreak of war. This collection of scholarly essays traces how the national press influenced and shaped America’s path towards warfare. Major challenges faced by American newspapers prior to secession and war are explored, including: the economic development of the press; technology and its influence on the press; major editors and reporters (North and South) and the role of partisanship; and the central debate over slavery in the future of an expanding nation. A clear narrative of institutional, political, and cultural tensions between 1820 and 1861 is presented through the contributors’ use of primary sources. In this way, the reader is offered contemporary perspectives that provide unique insights into which local or national issues were pivotal to the writers whose words informed and influenced the people of the time. As a scholarly work written by educators, this volume is an essential text for both upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates who study the American Civil War, journalism, print and media culture, and mass communication history.
Author |
: Elizabeth Alexander |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 122 |
Release |
: 2001-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015053478973 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Antebellum Dream Book by : Elizabeth Alexander
Offers a collection of poems with themes ranging from race, memory, and Southern culture to African American celebrities including Richard Pryor, Muhammad Ali, and Nat King Cole.
Author |
: Charles C. Bolton |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822314681 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822314684 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Poor Whites of the Antebellum South by : Charles C. Bolton
Bolton (history, U. of Southern Mississippi) illuminates the social complexity surrounding the lives of a group consistently dismissed as rednecks, crackers, and white trash: landless white tenants and laborers in the era of slavery. A short epilogue looks at their lives today. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author |
: James L. Machor |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 419 |
Release |
: 2011-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801899331 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801899338 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reading Fiction in Antebellum America by : James L. Machor
James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War. Machor takes four antebellum authors—Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Catharine Sedgwick, and Caroline Chesebro'—and analyzes how their works were published, received, and interpreted. Drawing on discussions found in book reviews and in private letters and diaries, Machor examines how middle-class readers of the time engaged with contemporary fiction and how fiction reading evolved as an interpretative practice in nineteenth-century America. Through careful analysis, Machor illuminates how the reading practices of nineteenth-century Americans shaped not only the experiences of these writers at the time but also the way the writers were received in the twentieth century. What Machor reveals is that these authors were received in ways strikingly different from how they are currently read, thereby shedding significant light on their present status in the literary canon in comparison to their critical and popular positions in their own time. Machor deftly combines response and reception criticism and theory with work in the history of reading to engage with groundbreaking scholarship in historical hermeneutics. In so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors’ conceptions of their own readership.
Author |
: Lisa J. Shaver |
Publisher |
: University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages |
: 186 |
Release |
: 2012-01-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822977421 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822977427 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond the Pulpit by : Lisa J. Shaver
In the formative years of the Methodist Church in the United States, women played significant roles as proselytizers, organizers, lay ministers, and majority members. Although women's participation helped the church to become the nation's largest denomination by the mid-nineteenth century, their official roles diminished during that time. In Beyond the Pulpit, Lisa Shaver examines Methodist periodicals as a rhetorical space to which women turned to find, and make, self-meaning. In 1818, Methodist Magazine first published "memoirs" that eulogized women as powerful witnesses for their faith on their deathbeds. As Shaver observes, it was only in death that a woman could achieve the status of minister. Another Methodist publication, the Christian Advocate, was America's largest circulated weekly by the mid-1830s. It featured the "Ladies' Department," a column that reinforced the canon of women as dutiful wives, mothers, and household managers. Here, the church also affirmed women in the important rhetorical and evangelical role of domestic preacher. Outside the "Ladies Department," women increasingly appeared in "little narratives" in which they were portrayed as models of piety and charity, benefactors, organizers, Sunday school administrators and teachers, missionaries, and ministers' assistants. These texts cast women into nondomestic roles that were institutionally sanctioned and widely disseminated. By 1841, the Ladies' Repository and Gatherings of the West was engaging women in discussions of religion, politics, education, science, and a variety of intellectual debates. As Shaver posits, by providing a forum for women writers and readers, the church gave them an official rhetorical space and the license to define their own roles and spheres of influence. As such, the periodicals of the Methodist church became an important public venue in which women's voices were heard and their identities explored.
Author |
: James Perrin Warren |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2010-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780271039138 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0271039132 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Culture of Eloquence by : James Perrin Warren
Author |
: Isabelle Lehuu |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 2003-06-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807860823 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807860824 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Carnival on the Page by : Isabelle Lehuu
In the decades before the Civil War, American society witnessed the emergence of a new form of print culture, as penny papers, mammoth weeklies, giftbooks, fashion magazines, and other ephemeral printed materials brought exuberance and theatricality to public culture and made the practice of reading more controversial. For a short yet pivotal period, argues Isabelle Lehuu, the world of print was turned upside down. Unlike the printed works of the eighteenth century, produced to educate and refine, the new media aimed to entertain a widening yet diversified public of men and women. As they gained popularity among American readers, these new print forms provoked fierce reactions from cultural arbiters who considered them transgressive. No longer the manly art of intellectual pursuit, reading took on new meaning; reading for pleasure became an act with the power to silently disrupt the social order. Neither just an epilogue to an earlier age of scarce books and genteel culture nor merely a prologue to the late nineteenth century and its mass culture and commercial literature, the antebellum era marked a significant passage in the history of books and reading in the United States, Lehuu argues. Originally published 2000. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author |
: Jenifer L. Barclay |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2021-04-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780252052613 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0252052617 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Mark of Slavery by : Jenifer L. Barclay
Exploring the disability history of slavery Time and again, antebellum Americans justified slavery and white supremacy by linking blackness to disability, defectiveness, and dependency. Jenifer L. Barclay examines the ubiquitous narratives that depicted black people with disabilities as pitiable, monstrous, or comical, narratives used not only to defend slavery but argue against it. As she shows, this relationship between ableism and racism impacted racial identities during the antebellum period and played an overlooked role in shaping American history afterward. Barclay also illuminates the everyday lives of the ten percent of enslaved people who lived with disabilities. Devalued by slaveholders as unsound and therefore worthless, these individuals nonetheless carved out an unusual autonomy. Their roles as caregivers, healers, and keepers of memory made them esteemed within their own communities and celebrated figures in song and folklore. Prescient in its analysis and rich in detail, The Mark of Slavery is a powerful addition to the intertwined histories of disability, slavery, and race.
Author |
: Patrick Rael |
Publisher |
: Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages |
: 436 |
Release |
: 2003-01-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807875032 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807875031 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Identity and Black Protest in the Antebellum North by : Patrick Rael
Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delany--these figures stand out in the annals of black protest for their vital antislavery efforts. But what of the rest of their generation, the thousands of other free blacks in the North? Patrick Rael explores the tradition of protest and sense of racial identity forged by both famous and lesser-known black leaders in antebellum America and illuminates the ideas that united these activists across a wide array of divisions. In so doing, he reveals the roots of the arguments that still resound in the struggle for justice today. Mining sources that include newspapers and pamphlets of the black national press, speeches and sermons, slave narratives and personal memoirs, Rael recovers the voices of an extraordinary range of black leaders in the first half of the nineteenth century. He traces how these activists constructed a black American identity through their participation in the discourse of the public sphere and how this identity in turn informed their critiques of a nation predicated on freedom but devoted to white supremacy. His analysis explains how their place in the industrializing, urbanizing antebellum North offered black leaders a unique opportunity to smooth over class and other tensions among themselves and successfully galvanize the race against slavery.
Author |
: Hilary J. Moss |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2010-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226542515 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226542513 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Schooling Citizens by : Hilary J. Moss
While white residents of antebellum Boston and New Haven forcefully opposed the education of black residents, their counterparts in slaveholding Baltimore did little to resist the establishment of African American schools. Such discrepancies, Hilary Moss argues, suggest that white opposition to black education was not a foregone conclusion. Through the comparative lenses of these three cities, she shows why opposition erupted where it did across the United States during the same period that gave rise to public education. As common schooling emerged in the 1830s, providing white children of all classes and ethnicities with the opportunity to become full-fledged citizens, it redefined citizenship as synonymous with whiteness. This link between school and American identity, Moss argues, increased white hostility to black education at the same time that it spurred African Americans to demand public schooling as a means of securing status as full and equal members of society. Shedding new light on the efforts of black Americans to learn independently in the face of white attempts to withhold opportunity, Schooling Citizens narrates a previously untold chapter in the thorny history of America’s educational inequality.