{"title":"“Halls Which Are Everywhere Denied Us”: Using Archival Research to Recover African American Feminist Media Activism","authors":"Tara Propper","doi":"10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0156","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article investigates the public activism of TheWoman’s Era newspaper (1894–97), which was one of the first African American feminist periodicals to derive national circulation in the United States in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Considering TheWoman’s Era’s coverage of activist efforts to build African American public reading rooms and libraries, this article suggests that African American feminist writers and editors, such as Florida R. Ridley and Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, sought to revise the concept of the public sphere by broadening who had access to public space and altering how blackness was represented within these spaces. This article draws from archival work derived from Emory University’s Emory Women Writers Resource Project in collaboration with the Lewis H. Beck Center at Woodruff Library and the Virtual Library Project, which offers transcribed reproductions of TheWoman’s Era and includes downloadable images of individual pages and advertisements. Given the scope of such research, which attempts to read African American women’s public writing through a rhetorical and close-textual lens, Emory University’s digital archives provide a valuable frame of reference for charting the currency of specific terms, such as “public space,” “public interest,” “public opinion,” and “public good.” The goal of this project is to offer a discursive interpretation of how appeals to “the public” as both a material and a conceptual space denoting citizen rights and resources was used and deployed by African American feminist activists for the purposes of uplifting minority communities and developing African American women’s voices.","PeriodicalId":29835,"journal":{"name":"RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48994256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Literary Roman Candle: Stephen Crane and His Biographers","authors":"M. Robertson","doi":"10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0349","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Stephen Crane’s powerful writing and brief, eventful life have attracted numerous biographers since his death in 1900 at age twenty-eight. Paul Auster’s Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane is the latest biography. Auster, one of America’s most inventive novelists, offers a complete account of Crane’s life, coupled with a detailed appraisal of virtually everything he wrote: novels, short stories, poems, sketches, journalism, and war correspondence. His biographical narrative is engrossing, beautifully written, and psychologically acute. His treatment of Crane’s partner Cora Crane and the other women in Crane’s life is detailed and sympathetic. However, Auster’s comprehensive plot summaries of Crane’s works, included on the assumption that his readers “have never read a word of Crane,” sap some of the pleasure from reading his passionate encomia to Crane’s works.","PeriodicalId":29835,"journal":{"name":"RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47119707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The Amber Amulet” by Louisa May Alcott: An Unpublished Revision and the Author’s Farewell","authors":"D. Daniele","doi":"10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0050","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This introduction to Louisa May Alcott’s unpublished manuscript “The Amber Amulet” explores the genesis of this unpublished novella, a substantial revision of a work that previously appeared in 1870 in the form of the short story “La Belle Bayadère.” It reconstructs the contexts in which this Indian tale was revised, the author’s debt to Jules Verne’s fiction, and her semi-autobiographical portrait as a celebrity of the Victorian stage.","PeriodicalId":29835,"journal":{"name":"RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46295647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Amber Amulet: A Tale of India and England by Louisa May Alcott","authors":"Transcribed and Edited by Daniela Daniele","doi":"10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0097","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This transcription reproduces the manuscript of an unpublished novella by Louisa May Alcott titled “The Amber Amulet” which develops the thriller “La Belle Bayadère,” published by Frank Leslie in 1870. The text is approximately dated 1886–87.","PeriodicalId":29835,"journal":{"name":"RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41252297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prospects for the Study of Charles Brockden Brown","authors":"Mark L. Kamrath","doi":"10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Beginning in the 1970s and 1980s with the Kent State Edition of Brown’s novels, Brown’s life and writings became the subject of a multi-year editorial project. Similar to Melville and Cather studies, the rise of Brown studies since that time has been steady over the decades and can now be marked by nearly twenty-five years of Charles Brockden Brown Society conferences, a variety of collaborative scholarly edition projects and publications, numerous monographs, journal articles, and book chapters, and, most recently, publication of major library resources by Oxford University Press and the use of digital humanities approaches.","PeriodicalId":29835,"journal":{"name":"RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70889112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill","authors":"Keegan Grady","doi":"10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0372","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29835,"journal":{"name":"RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42337662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hannah Whitman Heyde: The Complete Correspondence","authors":"Brandon James O’Neil","doi":"10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0376","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29835,"journal":{"name":"RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44001805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Author of The Yearling","authors":"Ashley A. Lear","doi":"10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0394","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29835,"journal":{"name":"RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49150724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indigenous Languages and the Promise of Archives","authors":"Alyssa A. Hunziker","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1k03s31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1k03s31","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29835,"journal":{"name":"RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48694183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moby-Dick","authors":"J. Cook","doi":"10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/resoamerlitestud.44.1-2.0385","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29835,"journal":{"name":"RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43020291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}