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The Novels of Frances Harper by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.50The Novels of Frances Harper (2021) collects four works of fiction by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, a pioneering figure in African American literature. Minnie's Sacrifice (1869), originally... -
The Complete Frances Harper Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 9781513133485
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £19.80The Complete Frances Harper (2021) is a collection of writing by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Harper, the first African American woman to publish a novel, gained a reputation as a popular poet and... -
Frances Harper: Poems, Prose and Sketches by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Frances Harper: Poems, Prose, and Sketches (2021) is a collection of writing by Frances Harper. Harper, the first African American woman to publish a novel, gained a reputation as a popular poet and... -
Shadows Uplifted Volume I: Black Women Authors of 19th Century American Fiction by Frances Harper 9781736442258
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736442258Author Frances HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint -
The Code of Hammurabi King of Babylon by Robert Francis Harper 9781410201027
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.12Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White by Brook Thomas 9781421421322
Booksplease Price: £40.68In this powerful book, Brook Thomas revisits the contested era of Reconstruction. He evokes literature's immediacy to recreate arguments still unresolved today about state versus federal authority,... -
Temperance and Cosmopolitanism: African American Reformers in the Atlantic World by Carole Lynn Stewart 9780271082035
RRP: £102.99Booksplease Price: £91.45Temperance and Cosmopolitanism explores the nature and meaning of cosmopolitan freedom in the nineteenth century through a study of selected African American authors and reformers: William Wells... -
The New Anthology of American Poetry: Traditions and Revolutions, Beginnings to 1900 by Steven Gould Axelrod
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.802003 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Volume I begins with a generous selection of Native American materials, then spans the years from the establishment of the American colonies to about 1900, a... -
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... -
Collected Poems of Frances E. W. Harper by Frances E. W. Harper 9780195052442
Booksplease Price: £114.88Frances Harper was renowned in her lifetime not only as an activist who rallied on behalf of blacks, women, and the poor, but as a pioneer of the tradition of 'protest' literature, whose immense... -
Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing by Katherine Clay Bassard 9780691016474
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.35The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared... -
Race and the Production of Modern American Nationalism by Reynolds J. Scott-Childress 9781138864283
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This important book addresses the ways race has both helped and hindered Americans in determining national identity. Contributors consider race and American nationalism from a variety of historical... -
The Periodic Table of Feminism Marisa Bate 9781785037788
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37The history of feminism told through its most prominent advocates, including a diverse range of international names and faces.The Periodic Table of Feminism is an empowering, engaging and informed... -
Blood Work: Imagining Race in American Literature, 1890-1940 by Shawn Salvant 9780807157848
Booksplease Price: £45.06The invocation of blood-as both an image and a concept-has long been critical in the formation of American racism. In Blood Work, Shawn Salvant mines works from the American literary canon to explore... -
Iola Leroy by Frances Ellen Watkin Harper 9780143106043
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.95First published in 1892, this stirring novel by the great writer and activist Frances Harper tells the story of the young daughter of a wealthy Mississippi planter who travels to the North to attend... -
America's Imagined Revolution: The Historical Novel of Reconstruction by Tomos Wallbank-Hughes 9780807181546
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.53America's Imagined Revolution explores the Reconstruction period after the Civil War to ask narratological, historiographical, and theoretical questions about how slave emancipation has (and has not)... -
Haunted by the Civil War: Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Shirley Samuels 9780691248578
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69How the legacy of the Civil War-as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time-has shaped American visions of democracyIn Haunted by the Civil War, Shirley Samuels explores the work of Walt... -
Managing Literacy Mothering America: Womens Narratives On Reading And Writing by Sarah Robbins 9780822959274
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £45.58Managing Literacy, Mothering America accomplishes two monumental tasks. It identifies and defines a previously unstudied genre, the domestic literacy narrative, and provides a pioneering cultural... -
Necro Citizenship: Death, Eroticism, and the Public Sphere in the Nineteenth-Century United States by Russ Castronovo
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66In Necro Citizenship Russ Castronovo argues that the meaning of citizenship in the United States during the nineteenth century was bound to-and even dependent on-death. Deploying an impressive range... -
Iola Leroy: or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances E. W. Harper
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £16.98Frances Harper's fourth novel follows the life of the beautiful, light-skinned Iola Leroy to tell the story of black families in slavery, during the Civil War, and after Emancipation. Iola Leroy... -
Mocafico Numero Volume 7 9782957001392
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £30.06In 1999, Babeth Djian - fashion editor and avant-garde stylist - founded Numero, a Parisian magazine now famous for its unique and bold aesthetic combining fashion and contemporary art. From the... -
Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century by P. Gabrielle Foreman 9780252076640
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Activist Sentiments takes as its subject women who in fewer than fifty years moved from near literary invisibility to prolific productivity. Grounded in primary research and paying close attention to... -
Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century by P. Gabrielle Foreman 9780252034749
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14Activist Sentiments takes as its subject women who in fewer than fifty years moved from near literary invisibility to prolific productivity. Grounded in primary research and paying close attention to... -
From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture by Koritha Mitchell
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £18.37Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability and... -
From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture by Koritha Mitchell 9780252086311
Booksplease Price: £20.12Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability and... -
Domestic Allegories of Political Desire: The Black Heroine's Text at the Turn of the Century by Claudia Tate 9780195108576
Booksplease Price: £36.30Why did African-American women novelists use idealized stories of bourgeois courtship and marriage to mount arguments on social reform during the last decade of the nineteenth century, during a time... -
The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States by Derrick R. Spires
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restrictive, black writers articulated an expansive,... -
The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States by Derrick R. Spires 9780812250800
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.90In the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restrictive, black writers articulated an expansive,... -
Fault Diagnosis for Electric Power Systems and Electric Vehicles G. Rigatos 9781032864518
Booksplease Price: £90.68The present monograph offers a detailed and in-depth analysis of the topic of fault diagnosis for electric power systems and electric vehicles. First, the monograph treats the problem of Fault...