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  • Early African American Print Culture

    Edited by Lara Langer Cohen, Jordan Alexander Stein ...
    Series series Material Texts
    The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, yet the two are too rarely considered in tandem. In this landmark volume, a stellar group of established and emerging scholars ranges over periods, locations, and media to explore African Americans' diverse contributions to early American ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Fabrication of American Literature

    Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture

    by Lara Langer Cohen ...
    Series series Material Texts
    Literary histories typically celebrate the antebellum period as marking the triumphant emergence of American literature. But the period's readers and writers tell a different story: they derided literature as a fraud, an imposture, and a humbug, and they likened it to inflated currency, land bubbles, and quack medicine.Excavating a rich archive of magazine fiction, verse satires, comic almanacs, ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Early African American Print Culture

    Edited by Lara Langer Cohen, Jordan Alexander Stein ...
    Series series Material Texts
    The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw both the consolidation of American print culture and the establishment of an African American literary tradition, yet the two are too rarely considered in tandem. In this landmark volume, a stellar group of established and emerging scholars ranges over periods, locations, and media to explore African Americans' diverse contributions to early American ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Fabrication of American Literature

    Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture

    by Lara Langer Cohen ...
    Series series Material Texts
    Literary histories typically celebrate the antebellum period as marking the triumphant emergence of American literature. But the period's readers and writers tell a different story: they derided literature as a fraud, an imposture, and a humbug, and they likened it to inflated currency, land bubbles, and quack medicine.Excavating a rich archive of magazine fiction, verse satires, comic almanacs, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Pictures and Progress

    Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity

    Edited by Maurice O. Wallace, Shawn Michelle Smith ...
    Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activists understood photography's power to shape perceptions about race and employed the new medium in their quest for social and political justice. They sought both to counter widely circulating racist imagery and to use self-representation as a means of ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • 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

    $21.99 USD

  • Impossible Witnesses

    Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony

    by Dwight McBride ...
    Even the most cursory review of black literary production during the nineteenth century indicates that its primary concerns were the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. How did the writers of these narratives "bear witness" to the experiences they describe? At a time when a hegemonic discourse on these subjects already existed, what did it mean to "tell the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • A History of American Civil War Literature

    Edited by Coleman Hutchison ...
    This book is the first omnibus history of the literature of the American Civil War, the deadliest conflict in US history. A History of American Civil War Literature examines the way in which the war has been remembered and rewritten over time in prose, poems, and other narratives. This history incorporates new directions in Civil War historiography and cultural studies while giving equal attention ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Philadelphia Stories

    America's Literature of Race and Freedom

    by Samuel Otter ...
    In Philadelphia Stories, Samuel Otter finds literary value, historical significance, and political urgency in a sequence of texts written in and about Philadelphia between the Constitution and the Civil War. Historians such as Gary B. Nash and Julie Winch have chronicled the distinctive social and political space of early national Philadelphia. Yet while individual writers such as Charles Brockden ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Captive Stage

    Performance and the Proslavery Imagination of the Antebellum North

    by Douglas A. Jones Jr. ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    In The Captive Stage, Douglas A. Jones, Jr. argues that proslavery ideology remained the dominant mode of racial thought in the antebellum north, even though chattel slavery had virtually disappeared from the region by the turn of the nineteenth century—and that northerners cultivated their proslavery imagination most forcefully in their performance practices. Jones explores how multiple ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Apples and Ashes

    Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America

    by Coleman Hutchison ...
    Apples and Ashes offers the first literary history of the Civil War South. The product of extensive archival research, it tells an expansive story about a nation struggling to write itself into existence. Confederate literature was in intimate conversation with other contemporary literary cultures, especially those of the United States and Britain. Thus, Coleman Hutchison argues, it has profound ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Literary Cultures of the Civil War

    by Samuel Graber, Coleman Hutchison, Jillian Spivey Caddell, Faith Barrett, James Berkey, Shirley Samuels, Kathleen Diffley, Christopher Hager, Jeremy Wells, John Ernest, Jane E. Schultz ...
    Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores the literary cultures of that unsettled moment when memory of the war had yet to be overwritten by later impulses of reunion, reconciliation, or Lost Cause revisionism. The Civil War reshaped existing literary cultures or enabled new ones. Ensembles of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD