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Author:

Gardner, Eric, author.

Title:

Black print unbound : the Christian Recorder, African American literature, and periodical culture / Eric Gardner.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Christian recorder of the African American Methodist Episcopal Church--History.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History--Publishing--History--19th century.
Literature publishing--History--United States--History--19th century.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Periodicals--History--United States--History--19th century.
American periodicals--History--19th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.
African Americans in literature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

White houses and Black print -- Part 1. "Our church organ": toward a cultural and material history of the early Recorder. "Dense darkness": recovering the Recorder's history -- From Pine Street to the nation (and back again): the business of the Recorder -- "Their friends at home with papers": Recorder subscriptions and subscribers -- Part 2. "Would not such a narration be worth reading?": the Christian recorder and African American literary history. "We are in the world": reading the Recorder in the Civil War era -- "So let us hear from all the brethren": the Christian recorder and correspondence -- "That wished home of peace": the personal and the political in Christian recorder elegies -- Black (women's) fortunes and The curse of caste.

ISBN:

0190237090
9780190237097
0190237082
9780190237080

OCLC:

(OCoLC)898717243

LCCN:

2014047141

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)