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{"title":"Legacy Bookshelf","authors":"Leslie M. Hammer","doi":"10.1353/leg.0.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/leg.0.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42944,"journal":{"name":"LEGACY","volume":"25 1","pages":"349 - 358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2008-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/leg.0.0029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66264125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Roman Fever: Domesticity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing (review)","authors":"Carey R. Voeller","doi":"10.1353/leg.0.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/leg.0.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42944,"journal":{"name":"LEGACY","volume":"25 1","pages":"170 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2008-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/leg.0.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66263631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West (review)","authors":"L. Frost","doi":"10.1353/LEG.0.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LEG.0.0015","url":null,"abstract":"how Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-paper” critiques women’s addictive reading behavior. Several of the collection’s essays delve into debates about women’s reading practices, which took place within the cultural institutions and popular media of their eras. Jennifer Phegley discusses how two Victorian literary magazines sought to disprove dominant cultural notions of women as undiscriminating, dangerously suggestible readers. Ruth Hoberman examines debates about women’s controversial presence as readers in the British Museum’s Reading Room during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mary R. Lamb argues that Oprah Winfrey’s popular book club, while generating new interest in reading in American society, nonetheless offers women readers an essentially conservative model of how to respond to literary texts. The volume concludes with an essay by Kate Flint, which revisits her groundbreaking monograph, The Woman Reader 1837–1914, and suggests some potential new directions for scholarship on women and reading. Reading Women is a significant and compelling addition to existing scholarship about women and readership in nineteenthand twentieth-century Britain and America. It offers fresh perspectives on several significant female writers and works of women’s literature and provides a valuable contribution to current scholarly discussions about the cultural and symbolic significance, and the political and ideological impact, of women’s reading practices.","PeriodicalId":42944,"journal":{"name":"LEGACY","volume":"25 1","pages":"177 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2008-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LEG.0.0015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66263532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“I put my fingers around my throat and squeezed it, to know how it feels”: Antigallows Sentimentalism and E. D. E. N. Southworth’s The Hidden Hand","authors":"Paul C. Jones","doi":"10.1353/LEG.0.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LEG.0.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Although it has gone unacknowledged in literary studies, it is quite likely that E. D.E.N. Southworth wrote more about the death penalty than any other American novelist in the nineteenth century. In many of her best-selling works, Southworth offers her readers plots that illustrate the injustice, immorality, and inefficacy of capital punishment and that argue for its abolition through their sentimental depictions of characters--both guilty and innocent--facing the gallows. In this essay, I explore the role that Southworth's fiction played in this reform effort in order to make two central observations. First, I argue that Southworth's fiction demonstrates how the common sentimental arguments used by the movement against capital punishment could be incorporated into such popular narratives. For example, Southworth repeatedly depicts characters moving from apathy about or even support of the death penalty to active opposition to it because of a sympathetic experience with a condemned figure, dramatizing many of the arguments made by antigallows reformers and attempting to effect a similar change in her audience. Second, I assert that recognizing Southworth's serious interest in this subject will provide scholars new insight into her most famous work, The Hidden Hand, which I read here as her most sophisticated foray into the debate over the death penalty, one in which she imagines not just citizens being transformed by sentimentalism, but rather the justice system itself, the State, becoming a sentimentalized subject--a subject, moreover, that, because of its strong emotional identification with the condemned, rejects capital punishment as immoral and unjust. The movement against the death penalty in nineteenth-century America reached its height in the 1840s, as Southworth was beginning her literary career. Though public opposition to capital punishment existed as early as the eighteenth century, organized opposition to executions (part of the era's broader reform efforts) did not arise until the 1830s. A national society for the abolition of the death penalty and local societies in each state aggressively pursued change in capital punishment laws by lobbying legislatures, circulating petitions, and publishing pamphlets and books. Antigallows writers and editors, such as John L. O'Sullivan, Charles Spear, and Robert Rantoul, became nationally known for their strident opposition to capital punishment. These reformers were able, in the decade or so of the movement's heyday, to achieve substantial progress, reducing the number of crimes that were considered capital, ending public executions in most states, and abolishing the death penalty in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Rhode Island. Arguments against the gallows assumed a number of forms, but generally follow one of two forms: logical challenges to the efficacy of the death penalty and sympathetic appeals on behalf of the condemned. Most arguments fall into the first group. Reformers argued that capital","PeriodicalId":42944,"journal":{"name":"LEGACY","volume":"25 1","pages":"41 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2008-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LEG.0.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66263301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature (review)","authors":"Robert K. Nelson","doi":"10.1353/leg.0.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/leg.0.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42944,"journal":{"name":"LEGACY","volume":"25 1","pages":"164 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2008-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/leg.0.0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66263465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Legacy Bookshelf","authors":"Leslie M. Hammer","doi":"10.1353/leg.0.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/leg.0.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42944,"journal":{"name":"LEGACY","volume":"25 1","pages":"184 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2008-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/leg.0.0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66263189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (review)","authors":"James H. Cox","doi":"10.1353/LEG.0.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LEG.0.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42944,"journal":{"name":"LEGACY","volume":"25 1","pages":"168 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2008-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LEG.0.0019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66263212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Kindred Hands: Letters on Writing by British and American Women Authors, 1865–1935 (review)","authors":"Theresa Strouth Gaul","doi":"10.1353/LEG.0.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LEG.0.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Wilde, an Arikara woman educated at the Hampton Institute in Virginia who went on to become a particularly intriguing field matron for her tribe; she was eventually formally charged with “neglect of duty” by Ella Ripley, a Mandan woman living on the same reservation (175). Dawson Wilde, like some of the characters described in S. Alice Callahan’s novel Wynema, offers a fascinating example of the internalization of these domesticating practices by a tribal woman. But Simonsen’s final analysis of the artistic and educational activism of Angel DeCora, the daughter of Winnebagos who was tricked into a train ride that ended in a forced education at Hampton Institute, is for me the highlight of the book. DeCora’s story is compelling, but Simonsen’s use of it—as an example of how one woman enriched her artistic labor with an awareness of and commitment to her indigenous background and the cultural values gleaned from dominant white society—is a perfect way to end this study. Despite the many pots in which Simonsen cooks her critical stew, her study of domesticity emerges as a bold, multifaceted, and well-documented study of a newly surprising old American West.","PeriodicalId":42944,"journal":{"name":"LEGACY","volume":"25 1","pages":"179 - 181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2008-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LEG.0.0018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66263671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic, and: Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South (review)","authors":"S. Robbins","doi":"10.1353/LEG.0.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/LEG.0.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42944,"journal":{"name":"LEGACY","volume":"25 1","pages":"162 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2008-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/LEG.0.0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66263360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reading Women: Literary Figures and Cultural Icons from the Victorian Age to the Present (review)","authors":"H. Kent","doi":"10.1353/leg.0.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/leg.0.0012","url":null,"abstract":"black testimony and a shift in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s portrayal of white advocacy from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Dred, providing a particularly nuanced reading of Dred’s complicated legal commitments. These insights, however, do not adequately support her claim that Dred represents Stowe’s “growing sense that any attempt by whites to represent the slave . . . would only further entrench white paternalism and black oppression” (154). As DeLombard herself recognizes, but does not adequately resolve, Dred—like Uncle Tom’s Cabin—concludes unsatisfyingly with the hope that white paternalism will ultimately serve the slaves’ best interest. The final narrative examined is William MacCreary Burwell’s satirical proslavery allegory, White Acre Vs. Black Acre, which enables DeLombard to “step for a moment off the abolitionists’ well-worn paper trail” (178). While this momentary step is compelling, it is not sustained enough to provide a broader sense of how Southern proslavery writers appropriated or subverted the abolitionists’ trial metaphor. DeLombard’s book succeeds because she is so convincing about the ubiquity of the criminal trial in antebellum print culture, but she does not fully satisfy the very curiosity she engenders about proslavery texts. Slavery on Trial closes with an analysis of the depiction of John Brown’s trial in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. DeLombard examines a range of images to show that, by the time of the trial, both sides of the slavery debate had come to realize that the conflict would not be resolved either in the court of public opinion or in the American legal system. This interdisciplinary analysis is representative of the entire study, which explores a substantial archive, including court records, pamphlets, and speeches. However, in her conclusion, DeLombard unfortunately does not return to the book’s central issue— the tensions between white advocacy and black testimony—for what could have been a provocative discussion of John Brown’s role as prosecutor or even executioner in the trial against slavery. On the whole, though, Slavery on Trial offers a fruitful examination of the complicated relationship between abolitionist rhetorical practices and African American legal identity.","PeriodicalId":42944,"journal":{"name":"LEGACY","volume":"25 1","pages":"175 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2008-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/leg.0.0012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66263413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}