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American Quaker Romances

Author : Carolina Fernández Rodríguez
Publisher : Universitat de València
ISBN 13 : 8491349103
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book American Quaker Romances written by Carolina Fernández Rodríguez and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quaker characters have peopled many an American literary work—most notably, "Uncle Tom’s Cabin"—as Quakerism has been historically associated with progressive attitudes and the advancement of social justice. With the rise in recent years of the Christian romance market, dominated by American Evangelical companies, there has been a renewed interest in fictional Quakers. In the historical Quaker romances analyzed in this book, Quaker heroines often devote time to spiritual considerations, advocate the sanctity of marriage and promote traditional family values. However, their concern with social justice also leads them to engage in subversive behavior and to question the status quo, as illustrated by heroines who are active on the Underground Railroad or are seen organizing the Seneca Falls convention. Though relatively liberal in terms of gender, Quaker romances are considerably less progressive when it comes to race relations. Thus, they reflect America’s conflicted relationship with its history of race and gender abuse, and the country’s tendency to both resist and advocate social change. Ultimately, Quaker romances reinforce the myth of America as a White and Christian nation, here embodied by the Quaker heroine, the all-powerful savior who rescues Native Americans, African Americans and Jews while conquering the hero’s heart.

The Quakers of New Garden

Author : Claire A. Sanders
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781616266431
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book The Quakers of New Garden written by Claire A. Sanders and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the stories of four Quaker women as they struggle with affairs of the heart.

Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction

Author : Hsu-Ming Teo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040085415
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction by : Hsu-Ming Teo

Download or read book Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction written by Hsu-Ming Teo and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead imagining alternative histories. The novelists discussed employ the generic conventions of romance to narrate their understanding of historical and contemporary injustice and to reflect upon women’s achievements and the price they paid for autonomy and a life of public purpose. The volume seeks, firstly, to discuss the work of revision or reparation being performed by romantic historical fiction and, secondly, to analyse how the past is being repurposed for use in the present. It contends that the discourses and genre of romance work to provide a reparative reading of the past, but there are limitations and entrenched problems in such readings.

No Shame, No Fear

Author : Ann Turnbull
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book No Shame, No Fear written by Ann Turnbull and published by Candlewick Press (MA). This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In England in 1662, a time of religious persecution, fifteen-year-old Susanna, a poor country girl and a Quaker, and seventeen-year-old William, a wealthy Anglican, meet and fall in love against all odds.

The Last Runaway

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101606649
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Last Runaway written by Tracy Chevalier and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in The Last Runaway, bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles, passions and realities that fueled this extraordinary freedom movement. Honor Bright, a modest English Quaker, moves to Ohio in 1850--only to find herself alienated and alone in a strange land. Sick from the moment she leaves England, and fleeing personal disappointment, she is forced by family tragedy to rely on strangers in a harsh, unfamiliar landscape. Nineteenth-century America is practical, precarious, and unsentimental, and scarred by the continuing injustice of slavery. In her new home Honor discovers that principles count for little, even within a religious community meant to be committed to human equality. However, Honor is drawn into the clandestine activities of the Underground Railroad, a network helping runaway slaves escape to freedom, where she befriends two surprising women who embody the remarkable power of defiance. Eventually she must decide if she too can act on what she believes in, whatever the personal costs.

Honor

Author : Lyn Cote
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 141437562X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Honor written by Lyn Cote and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2014 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honor Penworthy finds herself wedded through an arranged marriage to a hearing impaired man. As she becomes involved with the Underground Railroad Samuel must decide whether to support Honor in this pursuit.

Half-forgotten Romances of American History

Author : Elisabeth Ellicott Poe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Half-forgotten Romances of American History written by Elisabeth Ellicott Poe and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How the Quakers Invented America

Author : David Yount
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742558335
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (583 download)

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Book Synopsis How the Quakers Invented America by : David Yount

Download or read book How the Quakers Invented America written by David Yount and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how the Quakers shaped the basic distinctive features of American life from the days of the founders and the colonies through the Revolution and up to the civil rights movement; also points out how Quaker values like freedom, equality, straightforwardness, and spirituality can be seen in modern day peace advocates.--From publisher description.

An Introduction to Quakerism

Author : Pink Dandelion
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521841119
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Quakerism written by Pink Dandelion and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-12 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Quaker history, theology and practice that addresses the diversity of Quakerism today.

The Romance of American Colonization

Author : William Elliot Griffis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romance of American Colonization written by William Elliot Griffis and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical Romance of the American Negro

Author : Charles Henry Fowler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Historical Romance of the American Negro written by Charles Henry Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Real America in Romance

Author : John Roy Musick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Real America in Romance written by John Roy Musick and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Sympathy

Author : Caleb Crain
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300133677
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book American Sympathy written by Caleb Crain and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A friend in history,” Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “looks like some premature soul.” And in the history of friendship in early America, Caleb Crain sees the soul of the nation’s literature. In a sensitive analysis that weaves together literary criticism and historical narrative, Crain describes the strong friendships between men that supported and inspired some of America’s greatest writing--the Gothic novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the novels of Herman Melville. He traces the genealogy of these friendships through a series of stories. A dapper English spy inspires a Quaker boy to run away from home. Three Philadelphia gentlemen conduct a romance through diaries and letters in the 1780s. Flighty teenager Charles Brockden Brown metamorphoses into a horror novelist by treating his friends as his literary guinea pigs. Emerson exchanges glances with a Harvard classmate but sacrifices his crush on the altar of literature--a decision Margaret Fuller invites him to reconsider two decades later. Throughout this engaging book, Crain demonstrates the many ways in which the struggle to commit feelings to paper informed the shape and texture of American literature.

The Quakers in America

Author : Thomas D. Hamm
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231123639
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Quakers in America written by Thomas D. Hamm and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quakers in America is a multifaceted history of the Religious Society of Friends and a fascinating study of its culture and controversies today. Lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings illuminate basic Quaker theology and reflect the group's diversity while also highlighting the fundamental unity within the religion. Quaker culture encompasses a rich tradition of practice even as believers continue to debate whether Quakerism is necessarily Christian, where religious authority should reside, how one transmits faith to children, and how gender and sexuality shape religious belief and behavior. Praised for its rich insight and wide-ranging perspective, The Quakers in America is a penetrating account of an influential, vibrant, and often misunderstood religious sect. Known best for their long-standing commitment to social activism, pacifism, fair treatment for Native Americans, and equality for women, the Quakers have influenced American thought and society far out of proportion to their relatively small numbers. Whether in the foreign policy arena (the American Friends Service Committee), in education (the Friends schools), or in the arts (prominent Quakers profiled in this book include James Turrell, Bonnie Raitt, and James Michener), Quakers have left a lasting imprint on American life. This multifaceted book is a concise history of the Religious Society of Friends; an introduction to its beliefs and practices; and a vivid picture of the culture and controversies of the Friends today. The book opens with lively vignettes of Conservative, Evangelical, Friends General Conference, and Friends United meetings that illuminate basic Quaker concepts and theology and reflect the group's diversity in the wake of the sectarian splintering of the nineteenth century. Yet the book also examines commonalities among American Friends that demonstrate a fundamental unity within the religion: their commitments to worship, the ministry of all believers, decision making based on seeking spiritual consensus rather than voting, a simple lifestyle, and education. Thomas Hamm shows that Quaker culture encompasses a rich tradition of practice even as believers continue to debate a number of central questions: Is Quakerism necessarily Christian? Where should religious authority reside? Is the self sacred? How does one transmit faith to children? How do gender and sexuality shape religious belief and behavior? Hamm's analysis of these debates reveals a vital religion that prizes both unity and diversity.

My Life's Romance, Or, Recollections of Seventy Years' Experiences in Various Parts of the World

Author : Mrs. John Farrar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book My Life's Romance, Or, Recollections of Seventy Years' Experiences in Various Parts of the World written by Mrs. John Farrar and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Forged in the Fire

Author : Ann Turnbull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781844289356
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book Forged in the Fire written by Ann Turnbull and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London 1665-66. With the Plague raging and the scent of smoke upon the wind, Will and Susanna, separated by class and distance, struggle to re-unite. Will has become a Quaker and broken with his father. Leaving Susanna behind, he travels to London. This is a story about how love and belief can overcome even the most terrifying twists of fate.

Albion's Seed

Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019974369X
Total Pages : 981 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Albion's Seed written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-14 with total page 981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.