Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825-1911

by Melba Joyce Boyd

In this important study, poet Melba Joyce Boyd analyzes Harper not simply as a feminist and an activist, but as a writer.

Frances E. W. Harper is a central figure in the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African-American literature and intellectual thought. The foremost poet of the "free colored community," she was also a lecturer,
educator, essayist, and novelist. A prolific champion of the abolitionist and feminist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814324894
• ISBN13: 9780814324899
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"