Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872.

By: Sizer, Lyde CullenMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (302 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780807860984Subject(s): American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism | Authors and readers -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Authors, American -- 19th century -- Political and social views | Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism | Women authors, American -- Political and social viewsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872DDC classification: 810.9/358 LOC classification: PS217.C58 -- S59 2000ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover Page -- The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872 -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Epigraph -- {INTRODUCTION} My Sphere Rounds Out -- {CHAPTER ONE} Rowing against Wind and Tide -- {CHAPTER TWO} Raising a Voice -- {CHAPTER THREE} What Can Woman Do? -- {CHAPTER FOUR} A Woman's Road -- {CHAPTER FIVE} Trying to Find Places -- {CHAPTER SIX} Woman's Part of Glory -- {CHAPTER SEVEN} The Times Which Form History -- {CHAPTER EIGHT} Still Waiting -- {CHAPTER NINE} A New Emancipation -- {CONCLUSION} -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction, these women, as well as a larger mosaic of lesser-known writers, used their mainstream writings publicly to make sense of war, womanhood, Union, slavery, republicanism, heroism, and death. Among the authors discussed are Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sara Willis Parton (Fanny Fern), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Although direct political or partisan power was denied to women, these writers actively participated in discussions of national issues through their sentimental novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and letters to the editor.Sizer pays close attention to how these mostly middle-class women attempted to create a "rhetoric of unity," giving common purpose to women despite differences in class, race, and politics. This theme of unity was ultimately deployed to establish a white middle-class standard of womanhood, meant to exclude as well as include.
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Cover Page -- The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872 -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Epigraph -- {INTRODUCTION} My Sphere Rounds Out -- {CHAPTER ONE} Rowing against Wind and Tide -- {CHAPTER TWO} Raising a Voice -- {CHAPTER THREE} What Can Woman Do? -- {CHAPTER FOUR} A Woman's Road -- {CHAPTER FIVE} Trying to Find Places -- {CHAPTER SIX} Woman's Part of Glory -- {CHAPTER SEVEN} The Times Which Form History -- {CHAPTER EIGHT} Still Waiting -- {CHAPTER NINE} A New Emancipation -- {CONCLUSION} -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction, these women, as well as a larger mosaic of lesser-known writers, used their mainstream writings publicly to make sense of war, womanhood, Union, slavery, republicanism, heroism, and death. Among the authors discussed are Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sara Willis Parton (Fanny Fern), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Although direct political or partisan power was denied to women, these writers actively participated in discussions of national issues through their sentimental novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and letters to the editor.Sizer pays close attention to how these mostly middle-class women attempted to create a "rhetoric of unity," giving common purpose to women despite differences in class, race, and politics. This theme of unity was ultimately deployed to establish a white middle-class standard of womanhood, meant to exclude as well as include.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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