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Managing literacy, mothering America : women's narratives on reading and writing in the nineteenth century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robbins, Sarah
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2004]
Series:Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
Subjects:
American prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women > Books and reading > United States > History > 19th century.
Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
American prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literacy > United States > History > 19th century.
Domestic fiction, American > History and criticism.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 19th century.
Women > United States > Intellectual life.
Books and reading in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Authorship in literature.
Women in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Literacy and literature in nineteenth-century America
  • New England authors and the genre's social role
  • Cross-class teaching and domesticated instruction
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin as a domestic literacy narrative
  • Frances Harper's literacy program for racial uplift
  • Missionary motherhood.