About this title: "Reforming the World" considers the intricate relationship between social reform and spiritual elevation and the development of fiction in the antebellum United States. Arguing that novels of the era engaged with questions about the proper role of fiction taking place at the time, Maria Carla Sanchez illuminates the politically and socially motivated involvement of men and women in shaping ideas about the role of literature in debates about abolition, moral reform, temperance, and protest work. She concludes that, whereas American Puritans had viewed novels as risque and grotesque, antebellum ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr
Date Published: 2009-01-15
ISBN-13:9781587296949ISBN:1587296942
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781587296949ISBN:1587296942
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Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781587296949ISBN:1587296942
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Ia
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781587296949ISBN:1587296942
Description: Fine in fine dust wrapper. 8vo. ISBN: 1-58729-694-2 Pages: 256. read more
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