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• catalog abstract "Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as an indication that an active African American reading public has come into being. Yet this is not a new trend; there is a vibrant history of African American literacy, literary associations, and book clubs. Forgotten Readers reveals that neglected past, looking at the reading practices of free blacks in the antebellum north and among African Americans following the Civil War. It places the black upper and middle classes within American literary history, illustrating how they used reading and literary conversation as a means to assert their civic identities and intervene in the political and literary cultures of the United States from which they were otherwise excluded. Forgotten Readers expands our definition of literacy and urges us to think of literature as broadly as it was conceived of in the nineteenth century. Elizabeth McHenry delves into archival sources, including the records of past literary societies and the unpublished writings of their members. She examines particular literary associations, including the Saturday Nighters of Washington, D.C., whose members included Jean Toomer and Georgia Douglas Johnson. She shows how black literary societies developed, their relationship to the black press, and the ways that African American women's clubs-which flourished during the 1890s-encouraged literary activity. In an epilogue, McHenry connects this rich tradition of African American interest in books, reading, and literary conversation to contemporary literary phenomena such as Oprah Winfrey's book club. Forgotten Readers redirects contemporary thinking about the origins of African American literature and adds a vital element to scholarship on the history of the book. -- Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, LLC.".
• catalog contributor b12649706.
• catalog created "2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
• catalog description ""Dreaded eloquence": the origins and rise of African American literary societies -- Spreading the word: the cultural work of the Black press -- Literary coalitions in the age of Washington -- Reading, writing, and reform in the women's era -- Georgia Douglas Johnson and the Saturday nighters.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-400) and index.".
• catalog description "Over the past decade the popularity of black writers including E. Lynn Harris and Terry McMillan has been hailed as an indication that an active African American reading public has come into being. Yet this is not a new trend; there is a vibrant history of African American literacy, literary associations, and book clubs. Forgotten Readers reveals that neglected past, looking at the reading practices of free blacks in the antebellum north and among African Americans following the Civil War. It places the black upper and middle classes within American literary history, illustrating how they used reading and literary conversation as a means to assert their civic identities and intervene in the political and literary cultures of the United States from which they were otherwise excluded. Forgotten Readers expands our definition of literacy and urges us to think of literature as broadly as it was conceived of in the nineteenth century. Elizabeth McHenry delves into archival sources, including the records of past literary societies and the unpublished writings of their members. She examines particular literary associations, including the Saturday Nighters of Washington, D.C., whose members included Jean Toomer and Georgia Douglas Johnson. She shows how black literary societies developed, their relationship to the black press, and the ways that African American women's clubs-which flourished during the 1890s-encouraged literary activity. In an epilogue, McHenry connects this rich tradition of African American interest in books, reading, and literary conversation to contemporary literary phenomena such as Oprah Winfrey's book club. Forgotten Readers redirects contemporary thinking about the origins of African American literature and adds a vital element to scholarship on the history of the book. -- Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, LLC.".
• catalog extent "xiv, 423 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Forgotten readers.".
• catalog identifier "0822329808 (alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0822329956 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Forgotten readers.".
• catalog isPartOf "New Americanists".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "2002.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Durham : Duke University Press,".
• catalog relation "Forgotten readers.".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "028/.9/08996073 21".
• catalog subject "African Americans Books and reading.".
• catalog subject "African Americans Intellectual life 19th century.".
• catalog subject "African Americans in literature.".
• catalog subject "American literature 19th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "American literature African American authors Appreciation United States.".
• catalog subject "American literature African American authors History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Literature Societies, etc.".
• catalog subject "PS153.N5 M36 2002".
• catalog tableOfContents ""Dreaded eloquence": the origins and rise of African American literary societies -- Spreading the word: the cultural work of the Black press -- Literary coalitions in the age of Washington -- Reading, writing, and reform in the women's era -- Georgia Douglas Johnson and the Saturday nighters.".
• catalog title "Forgotten readers : recovering the lost history of African-American literary societies / Elizabeth McHenry.".
• catalog type "text".