1st Edition
Political Prayer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Petitioning Women
By Amy Dunham Strand
Copyright 2024
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
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Political Prayer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how American women writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Emily Dickinson translated petitioning – a political form for redress of grievances with religious resonance, or what Strand calls “political prayer” – in their literary works. At a time when petitioning was... Read more
Introduction: “Stretching Out the Supplicating Hand”: Petitioning Women in 19th-Century America
Chapter One: Petitioning’s “Humble Story” in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s The Linwoods
Chapter Two: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Despairing Appeal”: Uncle Tom’s Cabin as Literary Petition
Chapter Three: “What Hope of Answer or Redress?”: Embodied Petitions in Rebecca Harding Davis’ Life in the Iron-Mills
Chapter Four: Poetic Petitions: Emily Dickinson’s “Letters to the World”
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Biography
Amy Dunham Strand is Associate Professor and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
