The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-century Black Women Writers
A large editorial series that restores and edits dispersed texts by nineteenth-century Black women writers. Rather than reading each work in isolation, it reconstructs the history of Black women's writing through the framework of recovery itself.
Work Information
It gathers scattered voices into a thirty-volume recovery project.
Oxford University Press's thirty-volume series restores works by nineteenth-century Black women writers. Because the volumes each carry their own ISBN, this record treats the series as a whole and uses a representative bibliographic identifier.
Review Summaries
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The series is valued not only for making individual works available together, but also for the scholarly visibility it gives to long-overlooked texts.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ Pr
- Published
- 1988-04-14
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 35.56 x 30.48 x 24.38 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780195052671
- ISBN-10
- 0195052676
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Literary
The writings of Afro-American women in the 19th century have remained buried in obscurity, accessible only in research libraries or in expensive and hard-to-find reprints. Many of these books have never been reprinted at all: in some instances only one or two copies are extant. Oxford University Press, in collaboration with the Schomburg Library, is publishing thirty volumes of these compelling and rare works of fiction, poetry, autobiography, biography, essays, and journalism. Each volume contains an introduction written by an expert in the field, including such well-known scholars as Mary Helen Washington, Hazel Carby, Deborah McDowell, Valerie Smith, Houston A. Baker, Jr., and Frances Foster; together, this important new collection will make accessible for the first time the entire range of works written by black women between 1773 and 1910. The series includes never-before-published reprinted texts, such as The Hazely Family , as well as Clarence and Corrine , Ann Plato's Essays , Phillis Wheatley's Collected Works , Emma Dunham Kelley's pioneering novel, Megda , Pauline Hopkins's three serialized novels, and Frances E. W. Harper's Complete Poems (never before collected). It also presents a newly discovered novel, Four Girls at Cottage City by Emma Dunham Kelley, as well as the first American edition of Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands .
Reviews
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Wow
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Three Stars
Excellent read!!