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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Harriet Beecher Stowe"”.
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The Elemental Ideas of Harriet Beecher Stowe Revolutionized: Popular Thought in a Critical Period of American History
… to oppression, and. its consequent cruelty, Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1851 wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. The novel was a reply to the evils of the slave system. For too long a time, an attitude of heartless submissiveness to slavery was noted in the united States. Sincere citizens of the North and …
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Private Voices Teaching Public Values in the Fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Wilkins Freeman, and Sarah Orne Jewett
… ministry. Furthermore, the thesis maintains that Stowe, Freeman, and Jewett utilized literary realism to publicize alternative theologies and progressive communities.
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Women and Humor: A Linguistic and Rhetorical Analysis of Joke Target
Authors Marietta Holley, Fanny Fern and Harriet Beecher Stowe produced works of humorous fiction, parody and satire to advance discussion on the question of women’s suffrage and equality. Using The General Theory of Verbal Humor (Attardo and Raskin, 1994; Attardo, 1994) to analyze some of the joke …
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Neither Ballots Nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and Emancipation During the Civil War (Slavery, Feminism, Woman's Rights)
… to encourage public support for antislavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the "little lady" who allegedly caused the big war, took advantage of her enormous popularity in England to urge British support for the Union. A young Philadelphia teenager named Anna Dickinson rose to prominence as an …
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Transatlantic Italy and Anglo-American Periodical Writing, 1848-1865
… contextualised readings of Arthur Hugh Clough, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Emily Dickinson. These three seemingly very disparate authors are connected by The Atlantic Monthly: Clough’s epistolary poem on the fall of the 1849 Roman Republic, Amours de Voyage, was first published there in 1858; …
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POPULAR GEOGRAPHY WRITING IN AMERICA, 1783–1888
… Guyot, William Gilpin, George Perkins Marsh, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Albert Richardson, Clarence King, and John Wesley Powell created a popular discursive sense of equivalency between the physical landscape of a North American continent and the United States as a nationstate.</p>
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Lord Byron's Scandals and Contemporary Cancel Culture
… century. Lord Byron, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Harriet Beecher Stowe serve as three prominent cases of cancel culture in their time period that are all closely linked to one another. Cancel culture changes the way that we study these figures and their writing in the modern day. This shows that …
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Insurrection in Black: Reading Race and Revolt in the Long Nineteenth Century
… John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucy Parsons, Sutton E. Griggs, Thomas Dixon, and Pauline Hopkins. A comparative approach to these texts reveals that, far from representing a stable or straightforward politics, black rebellion in print often served competing …
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Entangled mobility in nineteenth-century American literature
… as Robert Montgomery Bird, Herman Melville, Harriet Jacobs, and Harriet Beecher Stowe find in impairments avenues to resist the dominant narrative of unimpeded mobility inherent in Manifest Destiny. Across their works we see how a cast of characters including frontiersmen, renegade sailors, …
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The Hands of Labor: Depictions of Antebellum Authorship and the Shaping of Class In the Willis Family (Nathaniel Parker Willis, Fanny Fern, and Harriet Jacobs)
… Parker Willis, and his servant, ex-slave Harriet Jacobs.</p> <p>While N. P. Willis portrayed the work of writing as an effortless task, depicting himself jotting down lines in ease and comfort, Fern equated writing with physically demanding labor that required strength and perseverance. …
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Novel faiths: nonsecular fiction in the late-nineteenth-century U.S.
… Darwin’s _On the Origin of Species_ (1859) by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Oliver Wendell Holmes. In these two texts, questions of theological and genetic determinism intertwine. I analyze the complex storytelling techniques that allow the texts to promote liberal Protestant over orthodox …
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Health spectacle in American popular literature, 1790-1870
This project takes up health spectacle, which I identify as a prevailing concept for late eighteenth and nineteenth century American health history, first beginning in the 1790s and concluding in the 1860s and 70s. Through a study of popular literature of the period and other circulating medical …