Frances Ellen Watkins Harper : African American reform rhetoric and the rise of a modern nation state / / Michael Stancliff
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| Autore: |
Stancliff Michael
|
| Titolo: |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper : African American reform rhetoric and the rise of a modern nation state / / Michael Stancliff
|
| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 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.: | 9910459534603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))