ISBN:
9780822398387
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (844 p.)
,
10 b&w photographs
Edition:
1994
Series Statement:
New Americanists
DDC:
303.48/4/092
Abstract:
For half a century Lydia Maria Child was a household name in the United States. Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Lydia Maria Child did not figure prominently as a pathbreaker. Although best known today for having edited Harriet A. Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, she pioneered almost every department of nineteenth-century American letters-the historical novel, the short story, children's literature, the domestic advice book, women's history, antislavery fiction, journalism, and the literature of aging. Offering a panoramic view of a nation and culture in flux, this innovative cultural biography (originally published by Duke University Press in 1994) recreates the world as well as the life of a major nineteenth-figure whose career as a writer and social reformer encompassed issues central to American history.
DOI:
10.1515/9780822398387
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822398387?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822398387
URL:
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