Thinking Outside the Book

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2014
Author
Author: Augusta Rohrbach
Language
English
Number of Pages
161 pp.
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
City
Amherst, MA
Region
United States
Demographics
Women
Chronological Period
1800-1849
1850-1899
ISBN
9781625341259
Annotation

Examines the meaning of the book through the life and works of nineteenth-century women writers--Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Sojourner Truth, Hannah Crafts, Augusta Evans, and Mary Chesnut 

Contents: 

  • (R)emediation (literacy rethought)
  • Memory (authorship revisited)
  • History (publication redefined)
  • Testimony (the edition reimagined)
  • Loss (authorship regained)
  • Epilogue. no text left behind (a theory of recovery)
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