Nineteenth-Century Women Learn to Write
The essays in this volume address questions exploring the nature of education in the nineteenth century. Literacy has been called a double-edged sword because it can be used for both social control and social reform. During the nineteenth century it became a key element in the social transformation to Victorian culture with its cult of true womanhood advocating piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness. But both black and white women could resist the intended uses of the literacy they...
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The essays in this volume address questions exploring the nature of education in the nineteenth century. Literacy has been called a double-edged sword because it can be used for both social control and social reform. During the nineteenth century it became a key element in the social transformation to Victorian culture with its cult of true womanhood advocating piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness. But both black and white women could resist the intended uses of the literacy they were taught in order to achieve social reform.Nineteenth-Century Women Learn to Write interweaves thick feminist social history with theoretical perspectives from such diverse fields as linguistics and folklore, feminist literary theory, and African American and Native American studies. The volume constitutes a major addition to traditional social science studies of literacy. Booknews Explores the gendered nature of literary education in the US during the 19th century, considering upper-class white women participating in writing circles and attending Radcliffe, diarists on the western frontier, and African-American and Native-American women creating leadership roles. Suggests that lessons can be learned for developing countries today. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Cultures and Practices of U.S. Women's Literacy11Conduct Books for Women, 1830-1860: A Rationale for Women's Conduct and Domestic Role in America372"In an Atmosphere of Peril": College Women and Their Writing593"The Voice, Pen and Influence of Our Women Are Abroad in the Land": Women and the Illinois State Normal University, 1857-1899844"Let Us Strive Earnestly to Value Education Aright": Cherokee Female Seminarians as Leaders of a Changing Culture1035His Religion and Hers in Nineteenth-Century Hymnody1206Writing in Circles: Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Semi-Colon Club, and the Construction of Women's Authorship1457Literacy as a Tool for Social Action among Nineteenth-Century African American Women1798Mothers, Daughters, Diaries: Literacy, Relationship, and Cultural Context1979Women and the Western Military Frontier: Elizabeth Bacon Custer21710Cultural Models of Womanhood and Female Education: Practices of Colonization and Resistance23011Silks, Congress Gaiters, and Rhetoric: A Butler University Graduate of 1860 Tells Her Story24812Radcliffe Responses to Harvard Rhetoric: "An Absurdly Stiff Way of Thinking"264Postscripts: "A Toast to Jerusha Jane Jones"293"Is John Smarter than I?" by Jerusha Jane Jones (Rockford Seminary Magazine, 1875)295Afterword: Revealing the Ties That Bind?303Bibliography313Contributors333Index337
\ BooknewsExplores the gendered nature of literary education in the US during the 19th century, considering upper-class white women participating in writing circles and attending Radcliffe, diarists on the western frontier, and African-American and Native-American women creating leadership roles. Suggests that lessons can be learned for developing countries today. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
