...Alan Ackerman Abstract Catharine E. Beecher’s 1841 A Treatise on Domestic Economy laid the groundwork for the American environmental canon, including Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau and Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson. In conversation with other nineteenth-century American writers...

... as HBS. 14 Harriet Beecher to Catharine Beecher, 11 December 1829, in Catharine E. Beecher, Educational Reminiscences and Suggestions (New York: J. B. Ford, 1874), 68; and Harriet Beecher to Catharine Beecher, 14 December 1829, in Beecher, Educational Reminiscences, 71. 15...

... that would soon be expressed in Civil War contexts. The American Woman’s Home. By Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Ed. Nicole Tonkovich. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2002. xxxvi, 388 pp. Cloth...

..., even as the latter became more and more related to technological advance throughout the nineteenth century. Early chapters on Almira Phelps, Sarah Hale, Catharine Beecher, Susan Fenimore Cooper, and Elizabeth...

...Lauren Coats The Genius of Place: The Geographic Imagination in the Early Republic . By Christopher C. Apap . Durham : Univ. of New Hampshire Press . 2016 . xiii, 282 pp. Cloth , $85.00 ; paper, $40.00 ; e-book, $34.99 . American Road Narratives: Reimagining Mobility...

... York : Norton . ———. ( 1871 ) 1986 . Little Men . New York : Penguin . Beecher Catharine Esther Stowe Harriet Beecher . 1869 . The American Woman’s Home; or, Principles of Domestic Science . New York : J. B. Ford . Beers Diane L. 2006 . For the Prevention of Cruelty...

...Carolin Benack The Illiberal Imagination: Class and the Rise of the U.S. Novel . By Joe Shapiro . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2017 . 278 pp. Cloth, $75.00 ; paper, $35.00 ; e-book, $75.00 . Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British...

... of the close relationship between American didactic literature’s history and social class formation in our national culture. Kennesaw State University Notes 1 Catharine Maria Sedgwick to Mrs. K. S. Minot, 21 May 1848, Life and Letters of Catharine M. Sedgwick, ed. Mary E. Dewey (New York...

... ode to the Erie Canal to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ironic canal travel sketches to Margarita Engle’s recent historical verse-novel tallying the devastations of the Panama Canal—this essay identifies an infrastructural dialectic in which writers view infrastructure, initially...

... of the slave child Med, like the sentimentalized figures of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Evange- line St. Clare or Louisa May Alcott’s Beth March, stimulated a range of powerful emotions on the part of the BFASS, which authorized its reform-based activism in the name of social mothering and republi- can...

... of heredity and evolution, the fleeting unmooring of literary orphanhood represents a transient moment compared to the temporal scale across which novels posit that the family and the milieu, whether created by birth or adoption, shapes generation upon generation. As Catherine Ward Beecher exhorted to mothers...

... disc, $9.95. This volume traces the ways in which nineteenth-century authors incor- porated Cotton Mather’s 1702 publication into their fiction. In refashioning Mather’s history into gothic fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Catharine Maria Sedgwick...

... disc, $9.95. This volume traces the ways in which nineteenth-century authors incor- porated Cotton Mather’s 1702 publication into their fiction. In refashioning Mather’s history into gothic fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Catharine Maria Sedgwick...

... disc, $9.95. This volume traces the ways in which nineteenth-century authors incor- porated Cotton Mather’s 1702 publication into their fiction. In refashioning Mather’s history into gothic fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Catharine Maria Sedgwick...

... traces the ways in which nineteenth-century authors incor- porated Cotton Mather’s 1702 publication into their fiction. In refashioning Mather’s history into gothic fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Edith Wharton, and others...

... traces the ways in which nineteenth-century authors incor- porated Cotton Mather’s 1702 publication into their fiction. In refashioning Mather’s history into gothic fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Edith Wharton, and others...

... disc, $9.95. This volume traces the ways in which nineteenth-century authors incor- porated Cotton Mather’s 1702 publication into their fiction. In refashioning Mather’s history into gothic fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Catharine Maria Sedgwick...

... Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Edith Wharton, and others interrogated the tenacious hold of the “providence tale” on American culture and identity. Madness and the Loss of Identity in Nineteenth Century Fiction. By Judy Cornes. Jeffer- son, N.C.: McFarland. 2008...

... traces the ways in which nineteenth-century authors incor- porated Cotton Mather’s 1702 publication into their fiction. In refashioning Mather’s history into gothic fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Edith Wharton, and others...

... traces the ways in which nineteenth-century authors incor- porated Cotton Mather’s 1702 publication into their fiction. In refashioning Mather’s history into gothic fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Edith Wharton, and others...