Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

by P. Gabrielle Foreman

Book Overview

Activist 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 the historical archive, this book offers against-the-grain readings of the literary and activist work of Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Frances E. W. Harper, Victoria Earle Matthews and Amelia E. Johnson.

Part literary criticism and part...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252076648
• ISBN13: 9780252076640
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"