Book Series
Studies in American Popular History and Culture
New & Published Titles:
Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789–1919
Examining language debates and literary texts from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken and from Washington Irving to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book demonstrates how gender…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99193-3 (Routledge)
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My Pen and My Soul Have Ever Gone Together
Thomas Paine and the American Revolution
The first true intellectual biography of Thomas Paine, this book establishes the origins of his beliefs and their influence on his activism. For the past… read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99645-7 (Routledge)
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The Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of the greatest masters and most fascinating figures of the American literary world. However, an examination of Poe's…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96354-1 (Routledge)
The Struggle for Free Speech in the United States, 1872-1915
Edward Bliss Foote, Edward Bond Foote, and Anti-Comstock Operations
Passed in 1873, the Comstock Act banned 'obscene' materials from the mail without defining obscenity, leaving it open to interpretation by courts that were hostile…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96246-9 (Routledge)
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Gender and the American Temperance Movement of the Nineteenth Century
During the nineteenth century, the American temperance movement underwent a visible, gendered shift in its leadership as it evolved from a male-led movement to one…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96312-1 (Routledge)
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Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Returning to a foundational moment in the history of the American family, Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how various authors of the period…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98104-0 (Routledge)
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US Textile Production in Historical Perspective
A Case Study from Massachusetts
This book explores the development of a provincial textile industry in colonial America. Immediately after the end of the Great Migration into the Massachusetts Bay…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97988-7 (Routledge)
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Women Workers on Strike
Narratives of Southern Women Unionists
Gender, class, and culture merge in the lived experiences of women on strike in the South. This book examines women unionists’ life histories through the…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98147-7 (Routledge)
"The First of Causes to Our Sex"
The Female Moral Reform Movement in the Antebellum Northeast, 1834-1848
The First of Causes to Our Sex is a study of the first movement in the United States for social change by and for women.… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97910-8 (Routledge)
Great Depression and the Middle Class
Experts, Collegiate Youth and Business Ideology, 1929-1941
Great Depression and the Middle Class: Experts, Collegiate Youth and Business Ideology, 1929-1941 explores how middle-class college students navigated the rocky terrain of Depression-era culture,… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97970-2 (Routledge)
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Forthcoming Titles:
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State
By Michael Stancliff
To be published April 15th 2010