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

Informationen zum Autor By 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 AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 "I Have an Ambition that Burns Like Fire": Ephraim George Squier, Race, and the North American Travelogue2 "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 Hitchcock3 "Yours in the Name of Freedom": Frances Watkins Harper, Harriet Wilson, and the Legacy of William Watkins4 "One's Own Branch of the Human Race": Frances Watkins Harper, Anna Dickinson, and Frederick Douglass5 "Self Reliance," "Universal Redemption," and "The Obsessed Woman": Warren Chase, Joseph Osgood Barrett, and Juliet Stillman Severence6 Race, the Woman Question and "Liberty in Thought and Expression": Harriet Wilson, Paschal Beverly Randolph, and Laura Briggs James7 Coda 'The Present Age"IndexAbout the Author

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• Authors: Sharon Hartman Strom, Strom Sharon Hartman
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781442272651
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-7265-1
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; New York, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 19th 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