| The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child Revised Edition Contributor(s): Karcher, Carolyn L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822321637 ISBN-13: 9780822321637 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $39.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1998 Annotation: For half a century Lydia Maria Child was a household name in the United States. Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Lydia Maria Child did not figure prominently as a pathbreaker. Although best known today for having edited Harriet A. Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Child pioneered almost every department of nineteenth-century American letters -- the historical novel, the short story, children's literature, the domestic advice book, women's history, antislavery fiction, journalism, and the literature of aging. Offering a panoramic view of a nation and culture in flux, this innovative cultural biography recreates the world as well as the life of a major nineteenth-century figure whose career as a writer and social reformer encompassed issues central to American history. Originally published by Duke University Press in 1994, this biography will be of interest to students and scholars of American studies, women's studies, African-American studies, and nineteenth-century literature. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Women - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 94009151 |
| Series: New Americanists |
| Physical Information: 1.51" H x 6.84" W x 9.96" (3.11 lbs) 832 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For half a century Lydia Maria Child was a household name in the United States. Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Lydia Maria Child did not figure prominently as a pathbreaker. Although best known today for having edited Harriet A. Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, she pioneered almost every department of nineteenth-century American letters-the historical novel, the short story, children's literature, the domestic advice book, women's history, antislavery fiction, journalism, and the literature of aging. Offering a panoramic view of a nation and culture in flux, this innovative cultural biography (originally published by Duke University Press in 1994) recreates the world as well as the life of a major nineteenth-figure whose career as a writer and social reformer encompassed issues central to American history. |