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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper : African American reform rhetoric and the rise of a modern nation state / / Michael Stancliff



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Autore: Stancliff Michael Visualizza persona
Titolo: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper : African American reform rhetoric and the rise of a modern nation state / / Michael Stancliff Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London, : Routledge, 2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 p.)
Disciplina: 811.3
Soggetto topico: Authors, American - 19th century
Women authors, American - 19th century
African American authors - 19th century
Women abolitionists - United States
African American abolitionists
Black nationalism - United States
African American social reformers
Women social reformers - United States
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Frances Harper and Nineteenth-Century African American Rhetorical Pedagogy; 1 Composing Character: Cultural Sources of African American Rhetorical Pedagogy; 2 Reconstruction and Black Republican Pedagogy; 3 Temperance Pedagogy: Lessons of Character in a Drunken Economy; 4 Black Ireland: The Political Economics of African American Rhetorical Pedagogy after Reconstruction; 5 Not as a Mere Dependent: The Historic Mission of African American Women's Rhetoric at the End of the Century; Afterword
Appendix: A Selected Chronology of Writing and Oratory by Frances Ellen Watkins HarperNotes; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: A prominent early feminist, abolitionist, and civil rights advocate, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper wrote and spoke across genres and reform platforms during the turbulent second half of the nineteenth century. Her invention of a new commonplace language of moral character drew on the persuasive and didactic motifs of the previous decades of African-American reform politics, but far exceeded her predecessors in crafting lessons of rhetoric for women. Focusing on the way in which Harper brought her readers a critical training for the rhetorical action of a life commitment to social reform, thi
Titolo autorizzato: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-136-94706-X
1-136-94707-8
1-282-88633-9
9786612886331
0-203-84825-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820072903321
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Serie: American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))