Studies in American Popular History and Culture
US Textile Production in Historical Perspective: A Case Study from Massachusetts
1st Edition
By Susan Ouellette
September 10, 2012
This book explores the development of a provincial textile industry in colonial America. Immediately after the end of the Great Migration into the Massachusetts Bay colony, settlers found themselves in a textile crisis. They were not able to generate the kind of export commodities that would enable...
Women Workers on Strike: Narratives of Southern Women Unionists
1st Edition
By Roxanne Newton
September 10, 2012
Gender, class, and culture merge in the lived experiences of women on strike in the South. This book examines women unionists’ life histories through the lens of narrative analysis, interpreting their multiple perspectives as four coherent discourse communities: social activists, union feminists, ...
The First of Causes to Our Sex: The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848
1st Edition
By Daniel S. Wright
July 26, 2012
The First of Causes to Our Sex is a study of the first movement in the United States for social change by and for women. Female moral reform in the 1830s and '40s was a campaign to abolish sexual vice and the sexual double standard, and to promote sexual abstinence among the young as they entered ...
The Making of the Primitive Baptists: A Cultural and Intellectual History of the Anti-Mission Movement, 1800-1840
1st Edition
By James R. Mathis
June 28, 2012
This study describes the creation of the Primitive Baptist movement and discusses the main outlines of their thought. It also weaves the story of the Primitive Baptists with other developments in American Christianity in the Early Republic....
Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789-1919
1st Edition
By Amy Dunham Strand
February 27, 2012
Examining language debates and literary texts from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken and from Washington Irving to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book demonstrates how gender arose in passionate discussions about language to address concerns about national identity and national citizenship elicited by ...
Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
1st Edition
By Mary McCartin Wearn
February 27, 2012
Returning to a foundational moment in the history of the American family, Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how various authors of the period represented the maternal role – an office that came to a new, social prominence at the end of the eighteenth century....
The Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe
1st Edition
By Jonathan Hartmann
February 24, 2012
Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of the greatest masters and most fascinating figures of the American literary world. However, an examination of Poe's essays and criticism throughout his prose publishing career (1831-1849) reveals that the author himself played a vital role in the creation ...
Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By Holly Berkley Fletcher
February 23, 2012
During the nineteenth century, the American temperance movement underwent a visible, gendered shift in its leadership as it evolved from a male-led movement to one dominated by the women. However, this transition of leadership masked the complexity and diversity of the temperance movement. Through ...
The Struggle for Free Speech in the United States, 1872-1915: Edward Bliss Foote, Edward Bond Foote, and Anti-Comstock Operations
1st Edition
By Janice Ruth Wood
February 23, 2012
Passed in 1873, the Comstock Act banned 'obscene' materials from the mail without defining obscenity, leaving it open to interpretation by courts that were hostile to free speech. Literature that reflected changing attitudes toward sexuality, religion, and social institutions fell victim to the ...
Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City: The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital
1st Edition
By Robert Bennett
June 20, 2011
Situating post-WWII New York literature within the material context of American urban history, this work analyzes how literary movements such as the Beat Generation, the New York poets and Black Arts Moment criticized the spatial restructuring of post-WWII New York City....
Feminist Revolution in Literacy: Women's Bookstores in the United States
1st Edition
By Junko Onosaka
April 08, 2010
This book examines the history of women's bookstores in the US from the 1970s to the 1990s. It establishes that women's bookstores played an important role in feminism by enabling the dissemination of women's voices and thereby helping to sustain and enrich the women's movement. They improved ...
State of 'The Union': Marriage and Free Love in the Late 1800s
1st Edition
By Sandra Schroer
October 19, 2009
This study of the Free Love Movement in the mid-to-late 1800s examines the situated knowledge of women and men who participated in the movement, how they articulated the platform, and contributed to its exposure by writing and publishing their ideas, arguments and concerns. While all Free Love ...