Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Civil War and Reconstruction - Gardner, Eric
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper fought for abolition, women's suffrage, Black suffrage, civil rights, and temperance throughout the second half of the nineteenth-century, all while lecturing across the nation and writing powerful novels, poems, essays, and sketches. Still, though Harper was well-known during her lifetime, many twentieth-century critics dismissed or ignored her. Building from pioneering archival work, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Civil War and Reconstruction gives the fullest account available of how this major African American author-activist claimed the book's nation-shaking…mehr

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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper fought for abolition, women's suffrage, Black suffrage, civil rights, and temperance throughout the second half of the nineteenth-century, all while lecturing across the nation and writing powerful novels, poems, essays, and sketches. Still, though Harper was well-known during her lifetime, many twentieth-century critics dismissed or ignored her. Building from pioneering archival work, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Civil War and Reconstruction gives the fullest account available of how this major African American author-activist claimed the book's nation-shaking title moments as her own. The book focuses especially on Harper's vision of what Reconstruction could be-not only what needed to be built back after the Civil War but what needed to be wiped away and what needed to be created anew to enact "a more perfect union."
Autorenporträt
Eric Gardner is Chair of the English Department at Saginaw Valley State University. Author of two prize-winning monographs--Unexpected Places: Relocating Nineteenth-Century African American Literature (2009) and Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture (2015)--he has also edited five books and published a wide range of shorter work on nineteenth-century African American literature and culture. A founding convenor of Just Teach One: Early African American Print and an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society, he has won recognition from organizations ranging from the Saginaw County NAACP to the National Endowment for the Humanities.