Managing Literacy Mothering America - Womens Narratives on Reading and Writing

Sarah Robbins identifies and defines a new genre in American letters--the domestic literacy narrative--and provides a cultural history of its development throughout the nineteenth century.

About the author

Sarah Robbins, a professor of English at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, is the author of The Cambridge Introduction to Harriet Beecher Stowe and coeditor of Writing America, Writing Our Communities, and Teachers' Writing Groups.

Summary

Sarah Robbins identifies and defines a new genre in American letters—the domestic literacy narrative—and provides a cultural history of its development throughout the nineteenth century. Winner of an Outstanding Academic Title Award from Choice Magazine (2006).

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Robbins
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.02.2006
• EAN: 9780822959274
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-5927-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 228 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 455 g
• Series: Pittsburgh Series in Compositi; Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture; Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture; Composition, Literacy, and Cul; Composition, Literacy, and Culture; Pittsburgh Series in Compositi
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies