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UNINA9910956516403321 |
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Titolo |
The Akron offering : a ladies' literary magazine, 1849-1850 : a critical edition, complete and annotated / / edited by Jon Miller |
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Akron, : University of Akron Press, 2013 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (482 p.) |
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Collana |
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Critical editions in early American literature |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - 1783-1850 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- April 1849 -- Prospectus: Magazine for Ladies! -- May 1849 -- To Readers of the Offering -- Norman and Cornelia Campbell, Chapter 1 -- The Bitter Hour -- The Soul's Search After Happiness -- The May Moon -- Untitled letter "on behalf of the Fraternity" -- "Misfortune, like a creditor severe" -- Parental Influence -- "In the struggle of contending interests" -- Random Thoughts -- Lines for the Ladies' Offering -- "One Sunny Spot" -- To Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Barker -- "Reader, the Offering is now before you-" -- June 1849 -- Norman and Cornelia Campbell, Chapter II -- "Man is not an isolated creature" -- The Spectre Haunted -- Nature's Loveliness -- Thoughts Suggested While Reading the 15th Verse of the One Hundred and Sixth Psalm -- A Fool's Soliloquy -- The Graveyard -- Faith, Hope, and Charity -- Letter to the Offering -- Random Thoughts -- My Own Heart -- A Sketch from Life -- Hap-Hazzard Ideas -- Our Readers -- July 1849 -- The Eloquence of Truth -- To an Invalid -- Random Thoughts -- A Freak of Morpheus -- Lines for Jane L. Sims of Litchfield, Ohio -- Vine Cottage -- The Poet-from Lamartine -- "Faint praise is disparagement" -- "Two things are indicative of a weak mind" -- Norman and Cornelia Campbell, Chapter III -- "Never Give Up" -- Extract from a letter written to a friend in Lucas County -- Reasons for Risibility -- A Little Word -- To Our Readers -- August 1849 -- Norman and Cornelia Campbell, Chapter IV -- "In Adversity, the mind grows strong by buffeting the tempest." -- The Elm by My Cottage -- Travels Through New York |
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& -- c. -- "Every time you spend one dollar and twenty-five cents" -- "Here Hope That Smiling Angel Stands" -- Hap-Hazard Ideas, Continued -- "Good nature is one of the sweetest gifts of Providence" -- Musings -- "Peace, Be Still" -- The Stranger's Burial. |
Time -- "How Blessings Brighten as They Take Their Flight" -- To A Friend -- Description of the Buckeye -- Prayer -- That Dear Old Bench in the Cottage Porch -- "Ignorance is vain, it hates reform" -- Canzonet -- To Readers and Correspondents -- September 1849 -- Which is the Fortunate Man? -- The Vale My Childhood Loved -- Decision of Character -- We Might Have Been -- The Little Coal-Heaver, Chapter I -- Norman and Cornelia Campbell, Chapter V -- Lines Written at My Brother's Grave -- Letter from Aunt Betty -- To My Sister on the Death of Her Child -- Time -- "This number of the Offering" -- October 1849 -- Bible Influence -- The Orphan -- Letters to the Offering, Number 1 -- "Every fool can find faults" -- Seville -- Which is the Fortunate Man?, Concluded -- Reform and Conservatism, Chapter I -- Where is Rebecca? -- Norman and Cornelia Campbell, Chapter VI -- "Would'st thou from sorrow find a sweet relief?" -- The Little Coal-Heaver, Chapter II -- To Our Readers -- November 1849 -- Norman and Cornelia Campbell, Chapter VII -- "The Norwegians, proud of their barren summits" -- Never Despair -- Letters to the Offering, Number II -- A Psalm of Life -- Scenes in the Life of an Artist -- Passing Away -- The Little Coal-Heaver, Concluded -- To My Absent Husband -- A Casket of Gems -- Reform and Conservatism, Chapter II -- Editor's Remarks -- December 1849 -- God in the Events of the Times -- "Seem Not-Be" -- Thoughts Concerning a Future State -- "Trees and flowers, and streams" -- "It is I -- Be Not Afraid" -- Norman and Cornelia Campbell, Chapter VIII -- Life's Likeness -- Letters to the Offering, Number III -- Written for a Lady's Album -- Despair.-A Fragment -- To Our Readers -- January 1850 -- Extract from Thoughts on the Poets -- The Evening Hour -- Time and Knowledge -- The Lady and the Gipsy Girl -- Reform and Conservatism, Chapter III. |
"How Old Art Thou" -- Norman and Cornelia Campbell, Concluded -- The Light in the Binnacle -- Thoughts -- To Our Readers -- February 1850 -- The Soul -- Twenty Years -- Beauty -- Morning All Day -- Grinding the Face of the Poor -- The Poet's Time -- American Literature -- Life -- The Reclaimed -- The Mansion of Rest -- A Sabbath at Honolulu -- "No God!" -- The Unfading Flower -- To Our Readers -- March 1850 -- Letters for the Offering, Number IV -- The Lambs of Heaven -- The Lover's Talisman -- Or, The Spirit Bride -- When Shall We Meet -- Thou Bid'st Me "Not to Curse Thee" -- Prayer -- A Tribute of Respect to the Memory of a Friend -- Education -- Lines Written by Miss A. P. on the Death of Her Mother -- The Days of Old -- Good Humor -- Religion -- Intellect -- Extract from Hap-Hazard Ideas -- Anger -- "Lily Lute, Adelia" -- April 1850 -- A Discourse -- "Who Shall Win the Prize?" -- The Old Man's Address to His Staff -- Thoughts on Visiting the Home of My Childhood -- Woman's Best Ornament -- Hap-Hazard Ideas -- "Virtue may be misrepresented" -- Lonely Musings on a Future State -- Letters for the Offering, Number V -- The Gilliflower -- Havn't the Change -- The Music of a Dream -- To Our Readers -- Appendix -- Index. |
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"I am not ambitious, I seek only to please for the present moment, leaving the glory of posthumous fame, to the thousand little celebrities of the day," writes Lizzie, one of the regular contributors to The Akron Offering, a literary magazine of mid-nineteenth century Northeast Ohio. "I feel perfectly willing to let Posterity take care of itself," she continues. "If I succeed in beguiling one sorrowing heart from its cares, even for a few moments, I shall count myself far happier than those, |
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whose names are recorded upon the register of fame." Posterity gazes back at Lizzie and many more like-minded contributors in this complete edition of creative writings by and for the women of Akron, Ohio, then a booming canal town on the verge of even greater prosperity. By turns religious, comic, romantic, and political, this extraordinary collection of early midwestern creative literature expresses a wide range of sometimes contradictory opinions on both the important questions of its day and the important questions of today: historical events such as the California Gold Rush and the 1848 revolutions in Europe are considered alongside more timeless contemplations on truth, justice, and beauty. Comprehensively annotated and explained, this unprecedented critical edition of the complete run of an antebellum literary magazine has much to offer those interested in the histories of Akron, of Ohio, of the American Midwest, and of American literature. |
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