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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.

Publisher:

University of Pittsburgh Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

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.
Women--United States--Intellectual life.
Books and reading in literature.
Motherhood in literature.
Authorship in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
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:

9780822942351 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0822942356 (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)55208417

LCCN:

2004010929

Locations:

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)