Winner of the College Language Association Book Award Frances Smith Foster has rediscovered three novels by Frances E. W. Harper, the best-known African-America
How African American writers used Victorian literature to create a literature of their own Tackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and app
Temperance and Cosmopolitanism explores the nature and meaning of cosmopolitan freedom in the nineteenth century through a study of selected African American au
In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a widening set of opportunities in the public sphere opened up for ambitious men and women in the loosely struc
Seeking to understand how literary texts both shaped and reflected the century's debates over adolescent female education, this book examines fictional works an