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  • Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press  (2)
  • Ithaca : Cornell University Press
  • Electronic books  (4)
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  • 1
    ISBN: 9780813938257
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wheelock, Stefan M., - 1971- Barbaric culture and black critique
    DDC: 820.9/3552
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    Keywords: Stewart, Maria W ; Equiano, Olaudah ; Cugoano, Ottobah ; Walker, David ; English literature History and criticism 18th century ; Slavery in literature ; Slavery Religious aspects ; Slavery Political aspects ; Slaves' writings, English History and criticism ; American literature History and criticism 19th century ; American literature African American authors ; History and criticism ; Electronic books ; USA ; Schwarze ; Cugoano, Ottobah 1757-1803 ; Equiano, Olaudah 1745-1797 ; Stewart, Maria W. 1803-1880 ; Walker, David 1785-1836 ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte 1770-1830
    Abstract: "In an interdisciplinary approach to black antislavery literatures at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Stefan Wheelock shows how the political character of freedom and a religious sensibility allowed Black antislavery writers to countermand ideologies of white supremacy while fostering a sense of racial community and identity. The major figures he selects--Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, David Walker, and Maria Stewart--were principally concerned with ending racial slavery and the slave trade, but they employed antislavery rhetoric at a time when the institution of slavery was preparing progressive Western politics to enter a new phase of imperial and racial domination. This contradictory circumstance, Wheelock argues, poses a significant challenge for understanding the development of this watershed moment in Western political identity. The author looks at the ways in which, during this period, religious and secular versions of collective political destiny both competed and cooperated to forge a vision for a more perfect and just society. What especially captures his interest is how the writers of the African Atlantic deployed religious sensibilities and the call for emancipation as a way of characterizing the liberal foundations of Atlantic political modernity. Although neither "modernity" nor "progress" is a term these writers used, Wheelock contends that a concern with modernity and its liberal character is implicit in their critiques and/or portrayals of the advanced political structures that gave rise to racial enslavement in the first place" --
    Description / Table of Contents: PrefaceIntroduction -- Ottobah Cugoano, liberty, and modern Atlantic barbarism -- Interesting narratives, civility, and the problem of freedom -- David Walker, false grammars, and American racial inheritance -- Maria Stewart and the paradoxes of early national virtue -- Conclusion.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
    URL: Volltext  (lizenzpflichtig)
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  • 2
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    Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press
    ISBN: 9780813927527
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (176 p)
    Series Statement: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
    Series Statement: Cultural Frames, Framing Culture Ser
    Parallel Title: Print version Male Armor : The Soldier-Hero in Contemporary American Culture
    DDC: 305.310973
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    Keywords: Men - United States ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781501711558 , 1501711555
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xii, 242 pages) , illustrations.
    Parallel Title: Print version Winterer, Caroline, 1966- Mirror of antiquity
    DDC: 305.489621097309033
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    Keywords: Upper class women Intellectual life ; 18th century ; United States ; Upper class women Intellectual life ; 19th century ; United States ; Classicism History ; 18th century ; United States ; Classicism History ; 19th century ; United States ; Classical education History ; 18th century ; United States ; Classical education History ; 19th century ; United States ; Women classicists History ; 18th century ; United States ; Women classicists History ; 19th century ; United States ; Upper class women Intellectual life 18th century ; Upper class women Intellectual life 19th century ; Classicism History 18th century ; Classicism History 19th century ; Classical education History 18th century ; Classical education History 19th century ; Women classicists History 18th century ; Women classicists History 19th century ; Classicism History 18th century ; Classicism History 19th century ; Classical education History 18th century ; Classical education History 19th century ; Women classicists History 18th century ; Women classicists History 19th century ; Upper class women Intellectual life 18th century ; Upper class women Intellectual life 19th century ; HISTORY ; United States ; 19th Century ; Civilization ; Classical influences ; Classical education ; Classicism ; Women classicists ; Antike ; Frau ; Geistesleben ; Humanistische Bildung ; Rezeption ; Sekseverschillen ; Vrouwenemancipatie ; Filosofische aspecten ; Frau ; History ; United States Civilization ; Classical influences ; Verenigde Staten ; USA ; United States ; History ; United States Civilization ; Classical influences ; United States Civilization ; Classical influences ; USA ; Verenigde Staten ; United States ; USA ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "In The Mirror of Antiquity, Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American women's classicism during its glory days in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. Overturning the widely held belief that classical learning and political ideals were relevant only to men, she follows the lives of four generations of American women through their diaries, letters, books, needlework, and drawings, demonstrating how classicism was at the center of their experience as mothers, daughters, and wives. Importantly, she pays equal attention to women from the North and from the South, and to the ways that classicism shaped the lives of black women in slavery and freedom."--BOOK JACKET
    Abstract: The female world of classicism in eighteenth-century America -- The rise of the Roman matron, 1770-1790 -- Daughters of Columbia, 1780-1800 -- Grecian luxury, 1800-1830 -- Climbing Parnassus, 1790-1850 -- The Greek slave, 1830-1865 -- Antigone and the twilight of female classicism, 1850-1900
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-233) and index. - Print version record
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  • 4
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    Ithaca : Cornell University Press
    ISBN: 9781501713347 , 1501713345
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (xix, 212 pages) , illustrations.
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Grasso, Christopher Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England. Elizabeth Reis 1999
    Parallel Title: Print version Reis, Elizabeth, 1958- Damned women
    DDC: 305.4097409032
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    Keywords: Women History ; 17th century ; New England ; Women Social conditions ; New England ; Women Religious life ; New England ; Puritans History ; New England ; Witchcraft History ; 17th century ; New England ; New England ; History ; Women History 17th century ; Women Social conditions ; Women Religious life ; Puritans History ; Witchcraft History 17th century ; Women Religious life ; Puritans History ; Witchcraft History 17th century ; Women History 17th century ; Women Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies ; Puritans ; Witchcraft ; Women ; Women ; Religious life ; Women ; Social conditions ; Vrouwen ; Puriteinen ; Hekserij ; Frau ; Hexe ; Puritanismus ; Sünde ; Frau ; Geschichte 1600-1700 ; History ; New England ; Neuengland ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in that intersection the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft more often than men, why they confessed more often, and why they frequently accused other women of being witches. In the process of negotiating their beliefs about the devil's powers in practical ways, both women and men embedded womanhood in the discourse of depravity. Women and men feared hell equally but the Puritan culture encourage women to believe that it was their vile natures which would take them there rather than the particular sins they may have committed
    Abstract: In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in that intersection the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft more often than men, why they confessed more often, and why they frequently accused other women of being witches. In the process of negotiating their beliefs about the devil's powers in practical ways, both women and men embedded womanhood in the discourse of depravity. Women and men feared hell equally but the Puritan culture encourage women to believe that it was their vile natures which would take them there rather than the particular sins they may have committed
    Abstract: Introduction: Puritan Women and the Discourse of Depravity -- 1. Women's Sinful Natures and Men's Natural Sins -- 2. Popular and Ministerial Visions of Satan -- 3. The Devil, the Body, and the Feminine Soul -- 4. Gender and the Meanings of Confession -- 5. Satan Dispossessed -- Epilogue: Gender, Faith, and "Young Goodman Brown
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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