Popular American literature of the 19th century
"This unique collection captures some of the excitement and diversity of the immensely prolific print culture that formed and framed nineteenth-century American life and thought. Gathering popular stories that tap into a variety of nineteenth-century American self-perceptions, fears, dreams, and longings, this resurrectionist work makes available material that is not readily available today but which was vital to the culture and daily conversations of the period. Popular American Literature of the 19th Century collects examples of a wide range of literature including tracts, plays, poems, gift books, dime novels, school books, and serialized newspaper novels. Featuring twenty-five works in their entirety and several more in extensive excerpts, it includes works by the American Tract Society, Catharine Esther Beecher, Bret Harte, Ik Marvel, William Holmes McGuffey, Maria Monk, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, E. D. E. N. Southworth, Mason Locke Weems, and many others. The selections cover many important themes including singleness and marriage, domesticity and gender roles, masculinity, proper conduct, social reform, temperance, religion, urban and rural life, race, slavery, class, science, business, and more. Ideal for courses in nineteenth-century American literature, surveys of American literature, and introductory courses in American studies, Popular American Literature of the 19th Century is also a rich resource for anyone interested in American popular culture"--Publisher's description
Literature
xxiii, 1220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780195141405, 0195141407
44133056
Mason Lcoke Weems, A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington, Hymen's Recruiting Sergeant ; American Tract Society - The Forgiving African; Poor Sarah; To Mothers; Beware of Bad Books; Murderers of Fathers and Mothers; Novel-Reading ; The Pearl, or Affection's Gift, 1833 ; Maria Monk, Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal ; Robert Montgomery Bird, Sheppard Lee ; Catherin Beecher, Treatise on Domestic Economy ; George Lippard; The Quaker City or the Monks of Monk Hall ; E.D.E.N. Southworth; The Wife's Victory; The Married Shrew: A Sequel to the Wife's Victory ; Oswald S. and Lorenzo N. Fowler; The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology ; Donald Mitchell (IK Marvel); Reveries of a Bachelor ; George Aiken; Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Domestic Drama in Six Acts ; T.S. Arthur; Ten Nights in a Bar-Room ; Six Species of Men ; Bret Harte; John Jenkins or The Smoker Reformed; Muck-a-Muck: A Modern Indian Tale after Cooper; The Luck of Roaring Camp; Miggles; Plain Languge from Truthful James; Further Language from Truthful James; The Latest Chinese Outrage ; Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; The Silent Partner ; McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader ; Thomas C. Harbaugh; Plucky Phil of the Mountain Trail ; Laura Jean Libbey; The Master Workman's Oath ; Charles Sheldon; In His Steps: What Would Jesus Do?