Fortune, Fame, and Desire Promoting the Self in the Long Nineteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor Sharon Hartman Strom Klappentext This book sets out to explore the promotion of the self in the rapidly growing economy and political flux of the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung This book sets out to explore the promotion of the self in the rapidly growing economy and political flux of the nineteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction 1 "I Have an Ambition that Burns Like Fire": Ephraim George Squier, Race, and the North American Travelogue 2 "The Right of Defining One's Position Seems to Be a Very Sacred Privilege in America:" Lola Montez, Miriam Follin, E.G. Squier, and DeWitt Clinton Hitchcock 3 "Yours in the Name of Freedom": Frances Watkins Harper, Harriet Wilson, and the Legacy of William Watkins 4 "One's Own Branch of the Human Race": Frances Watkins Harper, Anna Dickinson, and Frederick Douglass 5 "Self Reliance," "Universal Redemption," and "The Obsessed Woman": Warren Chase, Joseph Osgood Barrett, and Juliet Stillman Severence 6 Race, the Woman Question and "Liberty in Thought and Expression": Harriet Wilson, Paschal Beverly Randolph, and Laura Briggs James 7 Coda 'The Present Age" Index About the Author

Product details

• Authors: Sharon Hartman Strom, Strom Sharon Hartman
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.09.2016
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
• EAN: 9781442272651
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-7265-1
• Pages: 260
• Subjects: New York, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Civil War, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, Nineteenth Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, Civil War;Nineteenth Century