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A Day at a Time
Gathers diary selections, describes the historical background of each writer, and discusses the changing function and content of diaries.
American Women in Mission
The stereotype of the woman missionary has ranged from that of the longsuffering wife, characterized by the epitaph Died, given over to hospitality, to that of the spinster in her unstylish dress and wire-rimmed glasses, alone somewhere for thirty years teaching heathen children. Like all caricatures, those of the exhausted wife and frustrated old maid carry some truth: the underlying message of the sterotypes is that missionary women were perceived as marginal to the central tasks of mission. Rather than being remembered for preaching the gospel, the quintessential male task, missionary women were noted for meeting human needs and helping others, sacrificing themselves without plan or reaso...
The Portrayal of Woman's Sentimental Power in American Domestic Fiction
This book explores the rediscovery of the fiction written by Mary Jane Holmes (1825-1907) and examines the contrasting factors that made her work popular in the nineteenth century, but virtually unknown during the twentieth century. Cultural poetics and feminism, which established a critique on how late nineteenth- and twentieth-century critics decontextualized Holmes' work is the critical emphasis of this study. The theory of this study examines aspects of relational capacity that popular women writers present and that which their works are based on, and which enables them to relate to their culture and readers.
Mothers and Daughters in Nineteenth-Century America
The feminine script of early nineteenth century centered on women's role as patient, long-suffering mothers. By mid-century, however, their daughters faced a world very different in social and economic options and in the physical experiences surrounding their bodies. In this groundbreaking study, Nancy Theriot turns to social and medical history, developmental psychology, and feminist theory to explain the fundamental shift in women's concepts of femininity and gender identity during the course of the century—from an ideal suffering womanhood to emphasis on female control of physical self. Theriot's first chapter proposes a methodological shift that expands the interdisciplinary horizons o...
Memoir of Mrs. Mary E. Van Lennep
In this moving memoir, Louisa Fisher Hawes tells the story of her dear friend Mary E. Van Lennep, who dedicated her life to the cause of missionary work in Turkey. With poignant anecdotes and touching recollections, this book is a tribute to a remarkable woman and her enduring legacy. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
A Communion of Shadows
When the revolutionary technology of photography erupted in American culture in 1839, it swiftly became, in the day's parlance, a "mania." This richly illustrated book positions vernacular photography at the center of the study of nineteenth-century American religious life. As an empirical tool, photography captured many of the signal scenes of American life, from the gold rush to the bloody battlefields of the Civil War. But photographs did not simply display neutral records of people, places, and things; rather, commonplace photographs became inscribed with spiritual meaning, disclosing, not merely signifying, a power that lay beyond. Rachel McBride Lindsey demonstrates that what people be...
