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The Unsung Voices of Black History (from the Archives) by Kaavonia Hinton 9781546177845
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781546177845Author Kaavonia HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint -
Politics and Affect in Black Women's Fiction by Kathy Glass 9781498538411
Booksplease Price: £38.80Exploring literary possibilities, Politics and Affect reads black women's text-in particular Frances Harper's "The Two Offers" (1859), Julia Collins's The Curse of Caste (1865), Nella Larsen's... -
A Black Philadelphia Reader: African American Writings About the City of Brotherly Love by Louis J. Parascandola 9780271097312
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.96The relationship between the City of Brotherly Love and its Black residents has been complicated from the city's founding through the present day. A Black Philadelphia Reader traces this complex... -
Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life: Their Words, Their Thoughts, Their Feelings by Bert James Lowenberg
Booksplease Price: £44.03Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life presents selections from the writings of two dozen representative black women leaders of the past century, with a general introduction relating them to... -
Twelve Stories by American Women by Arielle Zibrak 9780143138174
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £11.00A collection of twelve essential short stories by iconic American women writers that introduces a more diverse canon and emphasizes non-white and queer writers to better represent the experiences of... -
Lyrical Strains: Liberalism and Women's Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America by Elissa Zellinger 9781469659817
Booksplease Price: £33.92In this book, Elissa Zellinger analyzes both political philosophy and poetic theory in order to chronicle the consolidation of the modern lyric and the liberal subject across the long nineteenth... -
Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North by Crystal Webster 9781469663234
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.01For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African American children, particularly those affected by... -
All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900 by Martha S. Jones 9780807858455
Booksplease Price: £34.44The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. ""All Bound Up Together"" explores the... -
Radical Poetics: Essays on Literature & Culture Khadijah Queen 9780472039791
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £20.66Literature has the power to help build a shelter in language for a way of being that holds integrity and love as its root. In the tradition of Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, and many other Black writers... -
Grievous Entanglement: Consumption, Connection, and Slavery in the Atlantic World Erin Pearson 9780813953885
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom Grievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world... -
Grievous Entanglement: Consumption, Connection, and Slavery in the Atlantic World Erin Pearson 9780813953878
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £76.70How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedom Grievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world... -
Glancing Visions: Surface and Depth in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Zachary Tavlin
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.12How the "glance" rather than the "gaze" in nineteenth-century literature and art anticipates the turn to modernism The sweeping vantages that typify American landscape painting from the nineteenth... -
Romantic Education in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: National and Transatlantic Contexts by Monika Elbert
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08American publishing in the long nineteenth century was flooded with readers, primers, teaching-training manuals, children's literature, and popular periodicals aimed at families. These publications... -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln by Fred Lee Hord
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.41Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award Though not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have... -
The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872 by Lyde Cullen Sizer 9780807848852
Booksplease Price: £43.29This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the... -
African American Leaders of Maryland - A Portait Gallery by Suzanne Ellery Chapelle
Booksplease Price: £24.07A collection of approximately forty portraits with mini biographies of Maryland's extraordinary African American men and women. Included are well known luminaries Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman,... -
Habitations of the Veil: Metaphor and the Poetics of Black Being in African American Literature by Rebecka Rutledge Fisher 9781438449326
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £24.45In Habitations of the Veil, Rebecka Rutledge Fisher uses theory implicit in W. E. B. Du Bois's use of metaphor to draw out and analyze what she sees as a long tradition of philosophical metaphor in... -
A Sacred Vertigo: Pilgrimage and Tourism in Rocamadour, France by Deana L. Weibel 9781793650320
Booksplease Price: £81.47Built into a huge cliff in central France, the town of Rocamadour is a visual marvel and a place of contradictions. Pilgrims come to venerate its ancient Black Madonna but are outnumbered by secular... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction by Kathleen Diffley 9781009159180
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93The legacies of the Civil War and Reconstruction remain a central part of American life a century and a half later. Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume... -
Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Black American Woman Novelist Hazel V. Carby 9780197777947
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.84With the 1987 publication of Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Black American Woman Novelist Hazel Carby produced a groundbreaking cultural history of nineteenth-century African American... -
Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Black American Woman Novelist by Hazel V. Carby 9780197777930
Booksplease Price: £88.86With the 1987 publication of Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Black American Woman Novelist Hazel Carby produced a groundbreaking cultural history of nineteenth-century African American... -
Slavery, Capitalism, and Women's Literature: Economic Insights of American Women Writers, 1852-1869 by Kristin Allukian 9780820364599
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £30.16With Slavery, Capitalism, and Women’s Literature, Kristin Allukian makes an important contribution to slavery and capitalism scholarship by including the voices of some of the best-known... -
African American Literature in Transition, 1830-1850 : Volume 3 by Benjamin Fagan
Booksplease Price: £105.19This volume charts the ways in which African American literature fosters transitions between material cultures and contexts from 1830 to 1850, and showcases work that explores how African American... -
Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women's Poetry by Jennifer Putzi 9780812253467
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.14In Fair Copy Jennifer Putzi studies the composition, publication, and circulation of American women's poetry in the antebellum United States. In opposition to a traditional scholarly emphasis on... -
Organizing America: Stories of Americans Who Fought for Justice by Erik Loomis 9781620977873
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.21From the acclaimed author of A History of America in Ten Strikes, a sweeping account of the impact of organizers on United States history We are living through a tidal wave of protests and activism... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction by Kathleen Diffley
Booksplease Price: £22.92The legacies of the Civil War and Reconstruction remain a central part of American life a century and a half later. Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume... -
Women Who Wrote: Stories and Poems from Audacious Literary Mavens by Louisa May Alcott 9781400341832
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.37This beautiful, giftable collection celebrates both the wisdom and tenacity of courageous women who defied society’s expectations and gifted the world with literary treasures through unparalleled... -
Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870-1920 by Leslie Petty 9780820328584
RRP: £53.95Booksplease Price: £47.65As the nineteenth century progressed into the twentieth, novels about politically active women became increasingly common. Until now, however, no one has studied this body of writing as a distinct... -
Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric by Virginia Jackson
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuriesBefore Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early... -
Black Women′s Intellectual Traditions – Speaking Their Minds by Kristin Waters
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.90A new edition of a landmark work on Black women’s intellectual traditions. An astonishing wealth of literary and intellectual work by nineteenth-century Black women is being rediscovered and... -
Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870-1920 by Leslie Petty 9780820357126
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £32.54As the nineteenth century progressed into the twentieth, novels about politically active women became increasingly common. Until now, however, no one has studied this body of writing as a distinct... -
Kindred Hands: Letters on Writing by British and American Women Authors, 1865-1935 by Jennifer Cognard-Black
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £33.95Kindred Hands, a collection of previously unpublished letters by women writers, explores the act and art of writing from diverse perspectives and experiences. The letters illuminate such issues as... -
Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature by Daniel Hack 9780691169453
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.12Tackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking book reveals that Victorian literature was put to use in African American literature and print... -
African American Literature Beyond Race: An Alternative Reader by Gene Andrew Jarrett 9780814742877
Booksplease Price: £90.87It is widely accepted that the canon of African American literature has racial realism at its core: African American protagonists, social settings, cultural symbols, and racial-political discourse... -
The Will of a People: A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches by Richard Leeman 9780809330577
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Drawing upon nearly two hundred years of recorded African American oratory, The Will of a People: A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches, edited by Richard W. Leeman and Bernard K... -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 9780393614565
Booksplease Price: £12.99This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first edition (1861), with the editors' explanatory annotations, introduction, and glossary of the people of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.Three... -
American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism Keidrick Roy 9780691252360
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21How medieval-inspired racial feudalism reigned in early America and was challenged by Black liberal thinkersThough the United States has been heralded as a beacon of democracy, many... -
From School to Salon: Reading Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry by Mary Loeffelholz 9780691049403
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43With the transformation and expansion of the nineteenth-century American literary canon in the past two decades, the work of the era's American women poets has come to be widely anthologized. But... -
Persuasion after Rhetoric in the Eighteenth Century and Romanticism Yasmin Solomonescu 9780192863737
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £76.92While the question of how rhetoric lost authority to modern philosophical and scientific inquiry has drawn much scrutiny, we have paid less attention to how values that were once bound up with... -
Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric by Virginia Jackson 9780691232799
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £66.34How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuriesBefore Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early...