Woman in the Nineteenth Century
10 best books like Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Margaret Fuller): Work: A Story of Experience, A History of American Higher Education, Landscape for a Good Woman: A Story of Two Lives, Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870, Great Short Works of Herman Melville, Women and Economics, Gender and the Politics of History, The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories, American Transcendentalism: A History
Alcott's concerns about social justice, women's work, domesticity, and community lie at the heart of this provocative novel.
In this story of a woman's search for a meaningful life, Alcott moves outside the family setting of her best known works. Originally published in 1872, Work is both an exploration...
| Author | John R. Thelin |
| ISBN | 0801880041 |
Colleges and universities are among the most cherished institutions in American society - and also among the most controversial. Yet affirmative action and skyrocketing tuition are only the most recent dissonant issues to emerge. Recounting the many crises and triumphs in the long history of American...
| Author | Carolyn Steedman |
| ISBN | 0813512581 |
There are lives, real lives, and there are the theories that explain them. Partly autobiographical, taking a mother and her daughter; two working-class childhoods (Burnley in the 1920s, South London in the 1950s) and trying to find a place for their stories in history and politics, in psychoanalysis...
| Author | Harriet Reisen |
| ISBN | 0805082999 |
A vivid, energetic account of the life of Louisa May Alcott, whose work has delighted millions of readers
Louisa May Alcott portrays a writer as worthy of interest in her own right as her most famous character, Jo March, and addresses all aspects of Alcott’s life: the effect of her father’s...
| Author | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| ISBN | 1681684578 |
From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History, and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and...
| Author | Herman Melville |
| ISBN | 0060586540 |
Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with 19 other stories in a beautifully redesigned collection that represents the best short work of an American master.As Warner Berthoff writes in his introduction...
| Author | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| ISBN | 1602060347 |
Startling in its observations and radical in its conclusions, this classic of women's rights literature, this work-by pioneering American feminist CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935)-was a phenomenon when it was first published in 1898, and was eventually translated into in seven languages...
| Author | Joan Wallach Scott |
| ISBN | 0231118570 |
Winner, in the original edition, of the 1989 Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Association, this landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a trenchant critique of women's history and gender inequality. Exploring topics ranging from language and gender to the politics of work...
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 0451530209 |
Of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s insight into the Puritan’s simultaneous need for fulfillment and self-destruction, D. H. Lawrence wrote, “Nathaniel knew disagreeable things in his inner soul. He was careful to send them out in disguise.” By means of artfully crafted and compelling tales, Hawthorne...
| Author | Philip F. Gura |
| ISBN | 0809034778 |
The First Comprehensive History of Transcendentalism
American Transcendentalism is a comprehensive narrative history of America's first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in the decades before and...
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| ISBN | 0140150943 |
This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,”...
| Author | Tom Wolfe |
| ISBN | 0425103455 |
Wolfe was educated at Washington and Lee Universities and also at Yale, where he received a PhD in American studies.
Tom Wolfe spent his early days as a Washington Post beat reporter, where his free-association, onomatopoetic style would later become the trademark of New Journalism. In books...
| Author | John Matteson |
| ISBN | 0393068056 |
A brilliant writer and a fiery social critic, Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) was perhaps the most famous American woman of her generation. Outspoken and quick-witted, idealistic and adventurous, she became the leading female figure in the transcendentalist movement, wrote a celebrated column...
| Author | Megan Marshall |
| ISBN | 0618711694 |
Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways our American Brontes. The story of these remarkable sisters — and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day — has never before been fully told. Twenty years in the making, Megan Marshall's monumental biograpy brings the era of creative...
| Author | James McNeill Whistler |
| ISBN | 0486218759 |
Whistler's Gentle Art, a classic in the literature of insult and denigration, might well be subtitled "The Autobiography of a Hater," for it contains the deadly sarcasm and stinging remarks of one of the wittiest men of the nineteenth century. Whistler not only refused to tolerate misunderstanding...
| Author | Rebecca Harding Davis |
| ISBN | 0312163746 |
NOTE: Includes a broad selection of historical and cultural documents plus the novella
This definitive edition reprints the text of Rebecca Harding Davis Life in the Iron Mills together with a broad selection of historical and cultural documents that open up the novella to the consideration...
Mrs. Jordan's Profession: The Actress and the Prince
| Author | Claire Tomalin |
| ISBN | 0679410716 |
In a brilliant piece of detective work, Tomalin--whose book about Nelly Ternan, Charles Dickens's secret mistress, won prizes as the best biography of 1991--has retrieved Dora, her story and her world, from the obscurity of lost letters and unexamined documents. As social history, the tale is irresistible;...
Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America
| Author | Laura Kipnis |
| ISBN | 0822323435 |
In a book that completely changes the terms of the pornography debate, Laura Kipnis challenges the position that porn perpetuates misogyny and sex crimes. First published in 1996, Bound and Gagged opens with the chilling case of Daniel DePew, a man convicted—in the first computer bulletin board...
| Author | Carol Miller |
| ISBN | 0061845248 |
"Radio legend Carol Miller...the sultry-voiced and still-fabulous airwaves icon...is a beloved veteran of...classic rock."
--New York Post
" Miller's] voice drew a generation of teenage boys to their radios."
--New York Times
Carol Miller is indisputably America's...
Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical
| Author | Stacy Wolf |
| ISBN | 0195378245 |
From Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls" to Nina in "In the Heights" and Elphaba in "Wicked," female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche. In this lively book, Stacy Wolf illuminates the women of American musical theatre - performers, creators, and characters...
Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk
| Author | Melinda Chateauvert |
| ISBN | 0807061395 |
A provocative history that reveals how sex workers have been at the vanguard of social justice movements for the past fifty years while building a movement of their own that challenges our ideas about labor, sexuality, feminism, and freedom
Documenting five decades of sex-worker activism,...
| Author | Ann Douglas |
| ISBN | 0374525587 |
This modern classic by one of our leading scholars seeks to explain the values prevalent in today's mass culture by tracing them back to their roots in the Victorian era. As religion lost its hold on the public mind, clergymen and educated women, powerless and insignificant in the society of the time,...
| Author | Christopher Hibbert |
| ISBN | 0393052028 |
Christopher Hibbert Introduces US to the many intriguing women behind Napoleon -- from his strong-willed mother and three sisters to his varied wives and mistresses. This lively historical account reveals Napoleon's often neglected private life and passionate relationships, in which he wildly...
