The Torchbearers
Title | The Torchbearers PDF eBook |
Author | Karen J. Blair |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 1994-02-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780253112538 |
"Blair's meticulous research has produced a complex work that is both encyclopedic and lively." -- The Journal of American History "With its valuable bibliography, this book should be an essential purchase for most libraries." -- Choice "With its detailed examination of both local and national organizations, this volume is a valuable addition both to the growing literature on women's associations and to the development of nonprofit enterprise in the arts." -- ARNOVA News "... Blair's insistence on the significance of her subject and her skillfully researched treatment of it is welcome and useful." -- American Historical Review "Readers interested in women's history, American cultural hsitory, and popular culture should all enjoy this book." -- Illinois Historical Journal "An indispensible overview of women's cultural activities in promoting and popularizing a wide variety of cultural enterprises, from music to artists' colonies." -- Kathleen D. McCarthy The women's arts clubs that flourished during the Progressive Era were more than havens for artistic dilettantes. As advocacy groups they effectively promoted universal access to the fine arts, leaving a vital legacy of cultural programs and institutions.
The Development of the American Short Story
Title | The Development of the American Short Story PDF eBook |
Author | Fred Lewis Pattee |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | American fiction |
ISBN |
On the Development of American Literature from 1815 to 1833
Title | On the Development of American Literature from 1815 to 1833 PDF eBook |
Author | William B. Cairns |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 462 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
Philology and Literature Series
Title | Philology and Literature Series PDF eBook |
Author | University of Wisconsin |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 100 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | Language and languages |
ISBN |
The Moral Economies of American Authorship
Title | The Moral Economies of American Authorship PDF eBook |
Author | Susan M. Ryan (Ph. D.) |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 230 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0190274026 |
The Moral Economies of American Authorship argues that the moral character of authors became a kind of literary property within mid-nineteenth-century America's expanding print marketplace, shaping the construction, promotion, and reception of texts as well as of literary reputations. Using a wide range of printed materials--prefaces, dedications, and other paratexts as well as book reviews, advertisements, and editorials that appeared in the era's magazines and newspapers--The Moral Economies of American Authorship recovers and analyzes the circulation of authors' moral currency, attending not only to the marketing of apparently ironclad status but also to the period's not-infrequent author scandals and ensuing attempts at recuperation. These preoccupations prove to be more than a historical curiosity-they prefigure the complex (if often disavowed) interdependence of authorial character and literary value in contemporary scholarship and pedagogy. Combining broad investigations into the marketing and reception of books with case studies that analyze the construction and repair of particular authors' reputations (e.g., James Fenimore Cooper, Mary Prince, Elizabeth Keckley, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and E.D.E.N. Southworth), the book constructs a genealogy of the field's investments in and uses of authorial character. In the nineteenth century's deployment of moral character as a signal element in the marketing, reception, and canonization of books and authors, we see how biography both vexed and created literary status, adumbrating our own preoccupations while demonstrating how malleable-and how recuperable-moral authority could be.
Annotated Catalogue of Newspaper Files in the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Title | Annotated Catalogue of Newspaper Files in the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin PDF eBook |
Author | State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 402 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | American newspapers |
ISBN |
Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities
Title | Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 888 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | Aesthetics |
ISBN |