Book of Donmon Teith

With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the women's rights movement. Rather than herald the singular achievements of the 1848 Seneca Falls con

Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America

What is the role of sex in the age of democratic beginnings? Despite the sober republican ideals of the Enlightenment, the literature of America’s early years

Before the Civil War, the public lives of American men and women intersected most frequently in the arena of religious activism. Bruce Dorsey broadens the field

Offers a major rereading of the antebellum literary canon.