Domestic Abolitionism And Juvenile Literature, 1830-1865 Project Muse Upcc Books

Explores why women abolitionists turned to children's literature to make their case against slavery. Deborah C. De Rosa Examines The Multifaceted Nature Of Domestic Abolitionism, A Discourse That Nineteenth-century Women Created To Voice Their Political Sentiments When Cultural Imperatives Demanded Their Silence. For Nineteenth-century Women Struggling To Find An Abolitionist Voice While Maintaining The Codes Of Gender And Respectability, Writing Children's Literature Was An Acceptable Strategy To Counteract The Opposition. By Seizing The Opportunity To Write Abolitionist Juvenile Literature, De Rosa Argues, Domestic Abolitionists Were Able To Enter The Public Arena While Simultaneously Maintaining Their Identities As Exemplary Mother-educators And Preserving Their Claims To Femininity. Using Close Textual Analyses Of Archival Materials, De Rosa Examines The Convergence Of Discourses About Slavery, Gender, And Children In Juvenile Literature From 1830 To 1865, Filling An Important Gap In Our Understanding Of Women's Literary Productions About Race And Gender, As Well As Our Understanding Of Nineteenth-century American Literature More Generally.--jacket. Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Some Twelve Or Fifteen Others ... The Committee Would Recommend For Publication : Domestic Abolitionists And Their Publishers -- 2. Now, Caesar, Say No More Today; Your Story Makes Me Cry : Sentimentalized Victims And Abolitionist Tears -- 3. Seditious Histories : The Abolitionist Mother-historian -- 4. We Boys (and Girls) Had Better See What We Can Do, For It Is Too Wicked : The Juvenile Abolitionist -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. Deborah C. De Rosa Includes Bibliographical References (p. 149-187) And Index. State University of New York Press Domestic Abolitionism and Juvenile Literature, 1830–1865 4 Contents 8 Figures 10 Acknowledgments 12 Abbreviations 14 Introduction 16 1. “Some twelve or fifteen others . . . the committee would recommend for publication”: Domestic Abolitionists and Their Publishers 28 2. “Now, Caesar, say no more today; Your story makes me cry”: Sentimentalized Victims and Abolitionist Tears 54 3. Seditious Histories: The Abolitionist Mother-Historian 94 4. “We boys [and girls] had better see what we can do, for it is too wicked”: The Juvenile Abolitionists 122 Notes 164 INTRODUCTION 164 1. DOMESTIC ABOLITIONISTS AND THEIR PUBLISHERS 166 2. SENTIMENTALIZED VICTIMS AND ABOLITIONIST TEARS 170 3. THE ABOLITIONIST MOTHER-HISTORIAN 173 4. THE JUVENILE ABOLITIONISTS 175 Works Cited 184 Index 204 A 204 B 205 C 206 D 207 E 207 F 207 G 208 H 208 I 209 J 209 K 209 L 209 M 210 N 211 O 211 P 211 Q 212 R 212 S 212 T 213 U 214 V 214 W 214 Y 215 Z 215 ISBN-13:,9780791458259 Deborah C. De Rosa is Assistant Professor of English at Northern Illinois University.