America's Joan of Arc

The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-533926-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

One of the most celebrated women of her time, a spellbinding speaker dubbed the Queen of the Lyceum and America's Joan of Arc, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson was a charismatic orator, writer, and actress, who rose to fame during the Civil War and remained in the public eye for the next three decades.
J. Matthew Gallman offers the first full-length biography of Dickinson to appear in over half a century. Gallman describes how Dickinson's passionate patriotism and fiery style, coupled with her unabashed abolitionism and biting critiques of antiwar Democrats--known as Copperheads--struck a nerve with her audiences. In barely two years, she rose from an unknown young Philadelphia radical, to a successful New England stump speaker, to a true national celebrity. At the height of her fame, Dickinson counted many of the nation's leading reformers, authors, politicians, and actors among her friends. Among the dozens of famous figures who populate the narrative are Susan B. Anthony, Whitelaw Reid, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Gallman shows how Dickinson's life illuminates the possibilities and barriers faced by nineteenth-century women, revealing how their behavior could at once be seen as worthy, highly valued, shocking, and deviant.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gallman, J. Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- I. Anna Dickinson's Civil War

- 1: Early Life and Career

- 2: "The Necessities of the Hour": Anna Dickinson's Civil War

- 3: "Beloved of so Many": The Many Faces of a Woman in Public

- II. An Enduring Public Figure

- 4: "A Woman of Earnest Convictions": The Lyceum

- 5: What Answer?: Suffrage and Citizenship in the Postwar World

- 6: "What New Grief Has Come to You?": The Personal and the Political

- 7: From the Platform to the Stage: Clinging to Fame

- III. Decline and Fall

- 8: Decline and Fall

- 9: A Reputation Defended

- 10: Conclusion: Memories and Legacies

- Bibliographic Essay/ Notes

Über Autor(innen)

J. Matthew Gallman is Professor of History at the University of Florida. An authority on the American Civil War, he is the author of Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855; The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front; and Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War.