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Author:

Robbins, Sarah.

Title:

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

Edition:

1st paperbk ed.

Publisher:

University of Pittsburgh Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

ix, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women--History--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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-318) and index.

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.

Series:

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture

ISBN:

9780822959274
0822959275

OCLC:

(OCoLC)67619285

Locations:

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)