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Title Managing literacy, mothering America : women's narratives on reading and writing in the nineteenth century / Sarah Robbins.

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Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006.

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	818.3080992 R538m 2006	---	Axe Inventory 2024

Edition	1st paperbk ed.
Description	ix, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series	Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
	Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-318) and index.
Contents	Literacy and literature in nineteenth-century America -- New England authors and the genre's social role -- Cross-class teaching and domesticated instruction -- Uncle Tom's Cabin as a domestic literacy narrative -- Frances Harper's literacy program for racial uplift -- Missionary motherhood.
Subject	American prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	Women -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	Literacy -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Domestic fiction, American -- History and criticism.
	Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century.
	Women -- United States -- Intellectual life.
	Books and reading in literature.
	Motherhood in literature.
	Authorship in literature.
	Women in literature.
ISBN	0822959275
	9780822959274