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Scherman re-introduces modern readers to a nineteenth-century woman writer and political activist whose disappearance from literary history would seem impossible in light of the volume of her published writing and the visceral responses she elicited from readers in her own day. Collecting samples of her work in every genre, personal letters, short fiction, essays, lectures, editorial, memoir, excerpts from several novels and one of her plays, Scherman captures the full creative range of one of the earliest woman professionals in the literary field. While grounding the writer's life and work in the broad contours of U.S. and trans-Atlantic literary culture and suggesting thematic and political relations among Oakes Smith's variety of writings, the scholar, the graduate student, or the amateur historian now has access to a growing array of electronic archives at their fingertips, including an expanded Oakes Smith website and EOS Log.
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Excerpt from The Poetical Writings of Elizabeth Oakes Smith The "Sinless Child and other Poems," by Mrs. Smith, first published in 1842, was introduced to the public by Mr. John Keese, editor of "The Poets of America illustrated by her Painters." The volume met with a favorable reception. It is no longer in the market. Since its publication, Mrs. Smith has written some of her finest pieces. The present more complete and elegant edition of her poetical writings, is issued to meet the general and increasing demand for them. Mrs. Smith is a native of Portland, in the state of Maine. Descended, on the father's side, from Thomas Prince, one of the early Puritan governors of the Plymouth colony, a...
"This collection brings together an eclectic range of prominent scholars in architecture, education, history, law, literary criticism, and cultural studies to explore how the field of childhood studies questions some of the most basic tenets of humanities scholarship-and to consider how these questions can bridge disciplines. Each essay pairs childhood studies with another field of inquiry to ask explicitly how foregrounding the child reorients long-established scholarly foundations in that field. Childhood studies' insistence that we need to rethink the symbolic work of the child necessarily realigns a host of other fields that, often uncritically, draw upon the false dichotomy separating t...
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