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  • Daddy Can't Do No Wrong

    by Michael Caporale, Eric Gardner ...
    Lenny Ray Johnson is a good man. He knows it. His wife Bertha Jean knows it. Everybody in Clarksdale, Mississippi knows it.Until they don't.All Lenny Ray wanted was a Friday night out with his best friend Beebo, a couple of drinks at the Hen & Rooster Lounge, and to make it home to his wife. What he got instead was one too many "Shotguns," a blackout he can't account for, and a visit four weeks ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Civil War and Reconstruction

    by Eric Gardner ...
    In a trans-bellum public career of over fifty years, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper fought for abolition, women's suffrage, Black suffrage, civil rights, and temperance. She fashioned a sense of literature across genre that engaged deeply with both her activism and questions of aesthetics, craft, and art. Still, while Harper was well-known during her lifetime, many twentieth-century critics ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880: Volume 5, 1865–1880

    Black Reconstructions

    Edited by Eric Gardner ...
    Series series African American Literature in Transition
    This volume offers the most nuanced treatment available of Black engagement with print in the transitional years after the Civil War. It locates and studies materials that many literary historians leave out of narratives of American culture. But as important as such recovery work is, African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880 also emphasizes innovative approaches, recognizing that such ... Read more

    $109.89 USD

  • Black Print Unbound

    The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture

    by Eric Gardner ...
    Black Print Unbound explores the development of the Christian Recorder during and just after the American Civil War. As a study of the African Methodist Episcopal Church newspaper and so of a periodical with national reach among free African Americans, Black Print Unbound is at once a massive recovery effort of a publication by African Americans for African Americans, a consideration of the nexus ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Teaching with Digital Humanities

    Tools and Methods for Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    by Jennifer Travis, Jessica DeSpain, Nicole N Aljoe, Elizabeth Argentieri, Blair Best, Tisha M Brooks, Madeleine (Maddie) G Cella, Benjamin J Doyle, Amy E Earhart0, Duncan Faherty1, Eric Gardner2, Ella L Gill3, Clayton Grimm4, Cynthia L Hallen5, Molly O'Hagan Hardy6, Elizabeth Hopwood7, Teagan Rabuano8, Ashley Reed9, Lawrence G Richardson0, Augusta Rohrbach1, Victoria K Sprowls2, Catherine Waitinas3, Ed White4 ...
    Series series Topics in the Digital Humanities
    Jennifer Travis and Jessica DeSpain present a long-overdue collection of theoretical perspectives and case studies aimed at teaching nineteenth-century American literature using digital humanities tools and methods. Scholars foundational to the development of digital humanities join educators who have made digital methods central to their practices. Together they discuss and illustrate how digital ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism

    by Helen R. Deese, Eric Gardner, Laura Dassow Walls, Sarah Ann Wider, Susan M. Stone, Carol Strauss Sotiropoulos, Sterling Delano, Katherine Adams, Noelle Baker, Dorri Beam, Mary De Jong, Monika Elbert, Ivonne Garcia, Daniel Malachuk, Jeffrey A. Steele, Gary Williams ...
    Traditional histories of the American transcendentalist movement begin in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s terms: describing a rejection of college books and church pulpits in favor of the individual power of “Man Thinking.” This essay collection asks how women who lacked the privileges of both college and clergy rose to thought. For them, reading alone and conversing together were the primary means of ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Visions of Glory

    The Civil War in Word and Image

    by James Berkey, Julia Stern, Jillian Spivey Caddell, Elizabeth Duquette, Eric Gardner, Sarah Gardner, Aston Gonzalez, Samuel Graber, Nathan Grant, Christopher Hager, Christopher Hanlon, Jeffrey Insko, Cody Marrs, Barbara McCaskill, Timothy Sweet, Kristen Treen, Jane E. Schultz, Martin T. Buinicki ...
    Series Book 15 - UnCivil Wars
    Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War. The book focuses on a diverse set of images that include a depiction of former slaves whipping their erstwhile overseer distributed by an African American publisher, a census graph published in the New York Times, and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Jennie Carter

    A Black Journalist of the Early West

    Edited by Eric Gardner ...
    In June 1867, the San Francisco Elevator-one of the nation\'s premier black weekly newspapers during Reconstruction-began publishing articles by a Californian calling herself \"Ann J. Trask\" and later \"Semper Fidelis.\" Her name was Jennie Carter (1830-1881), and the Elevator would print her essays, columns, and poems for seven years.Carter probably spent her early life in New Orleans, New York, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Appointed

    An American Novel

    by William H. Anderson, Walter H. Stowers ...
    Series series Regenerations
    Appointed is a recently recovered novel written by William Anderson and Walter Stowers, two of the editors of the Detroit Plaindealer, a long-running and well-regarded African American newspaper of the late nineteenth century. Drawing heavily on nineteenth-century print culture, the authors tell the story of John Saunders, a college-educated black man living and working in Detroit. Through a ... Read more

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  • Hearts of Gold

    by J. McHenry Jones ...
    Series series Regenerations
    J. McHenry Jones’s Hearts of Gold is a gripping tale of post–Civil War battles against racism and systemic injustice. Originally published in 1896, this novel reveals an African American community of individuals dedicated to education, journalism, fraternal organizations, and tireless work serving the needs of those abandoned by the political process of the white world. Jones challenges ... Read more

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  • Who Writes for Black Children?

    African American Children’s Literature before 1900

    Edited by Katharine Capshaw, Anna Mae Duane ...
    Until recently, scholars believed that African American children’s literature did not exist before 1900. Now, Who Writes for Black Children? opens the door to a rich archive of largely overlooked literature read by black children. This volume’s combination of analytic essays, bibliographic materials, and primary texts offers alternative histories for early African American literary studies and ... Read more

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  • Uncle Tom

    From Martyr to Traitor

    by Adena Spingarn ...
    Uncle Tom charts the dramatic cultural transformation of perhaps the most controversial literary character in American history. From his origins as the heroic, Christ-like protagonist of Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, the best-selling book of the nineteenth century after the Bible, Uncle Tom has become a widely recognized epithet for a black person deemed so subservient to whites that ... Read more

    $20.49 USD