Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature, 1830-1865 , livre ebook

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2012

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Deborah C. De Rosa

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9780791486306

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Deborah C. De Rosa examines the multifaceted nature of domestic abolitionism, a discourse that nineteenth-century women created to voice their political sentiments when cultural imperatives demanded their silence. For nineteenth-century women struggling to find an abolitionist voice while maintaining the codes of gender and respectability, writing children's literature was an acceptable strategy to counteract the opposition. By seizing the opportunity to write abolitionist juvenile literature, De Rosa argues, domestic abolitionists were able to enter the public arena while simultaneously maintaining their identities as exemplary mother-educators and preserving their claims to "femininity." Using close textual analyses of archival materials, De Rosa examines the convergence of discourses about slavery, gender, and children in juvenile literature from 1830 to 1865, filling an important gap in our understanding of women's literary productions about race and gender, as well as our understanding of nineteenth-century American literature more generally.

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction

1. "Some twelve or fifteen others . . . the committee would recommend for publication": Domestic Abolitionists and Their Publishers

2. "Now, Caesar, say no more today; Your story makes me cry": Sentimentalized Victims and Abolitionist Tears

3. Seditious Histories: The Abolitionist Mother-Historian

4. "We boys [and girls] had better see what we can do, for it is too wicked": The Juvenile Abolitionists

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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Publié par

State University of New York Press

Date de parution

01 février 2012

EAN13

9780791486306

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature 1830–1865

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Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature 1830–1865

Deborah C. De Rosa

State University of New York Press

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De Rosa, Deborah C. Domestic abolitionism and juvenile literature, 1830–1865 / Deborah C. De Rosa p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-5825-3 (acid-free paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5826-1 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 1. American literature—19th century—History and criticism. 2. Slavery in literature. 3. Children’s literature, American—History and criticism. 4. Antislavery movements in literature. I. Title.

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Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

—James Baldwin

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Figures

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Contents

“Some twelve or fifteen others . . . the committee would recommend for publication”: Domestic Abolitionists and Their Publishers

“Now, Caesar, say no more today; Your story makes me cry”: Sentimentalized Victims and Abolitionist Tears

Seditious Histories: The Abolitionist Mother-Historian

“We boys [and girls] had better see what we can do, for it is too wicked”: The Juvenile Abolitionists

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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John P. Jewett’s advertised prices for anti-slavery literature, including the Juvenile Anti-Slavery Toy Books series

Award notice for Frost’sGospel Fruits; or, Bible Christianity Illustrated. A Prize Essay

“Maternal Instruction” from Godey’sLady’s Book(March 1845)

Eva teaching the slaves from “Little Eva, the Flower of the South” (1853)

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