Amy Dunham Strand

Political Prayer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (eBook, PDF)

Petitioning Women

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Political Prayer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how white American women writers translated petitioning -- a political form for redress of grievances with religious resonance, or what Strand calls "political prayer" -- in their literary works.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040127193
• Artikelnr.: 72284902

Autorenporträt

Amy Dunham Strand is Associate Professor and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "Stretching Out the Supplicating Hand": Petitioning Women in
19th-Century America
Chapter One: Petitioning's "Humble Story" in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's
The Linwoods
Chapter Two: Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Despairing Appeal": Uncle Tom's Cabin
as Literary Petition
Chapter Three: "What Hope of Answer or Redress?": Embodied Petitions in
Rebecca Harding Davis' Life in the Iron-Mills
Chapter Four: Poetic Petitions: Emily Dickinson's "Letters to the World"
Coda