Recently added articles from ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly):

Thirty years a slave, and four years a fairy Godmother: dressmaking as self-making in Elizabeth Keckley's autobiography.

Mar 01, 2008; Criniti, Steve ... My clothes may express the dressmaker, but they don't express me.--Henry James, Portrait of a Lady (183) In this epigraph from Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, Isabel Archer argues with Madame Merle about whether or not clothing expresses the wearer. Isabel's retort is ...

Harriot F. Curtis: worker, author, editor.

Mar 01, 2008; Ranta, Judith A. ... Harriot F. Curtis (1813-89) may be familiar to some readers as an editor of the factory women's periodical, the Lowell Offering, published in Lowell, Massachusetts, from 1840 to 1845, to which she also contributed much fiction and nonfiction. This essay examines her editorial work and ...

Capital sentiment: Fanny Fern's transformation of the gentleman publisher's code.

Mar 01, 2008; Dowling, David ... Fanny Fern's meteoric rise to fame occurred during a crucial stage in the development of capitalism in America. The changing market conditions that met with seismic ideological shifts regarding work and gender are at the heart of Fern's writing. Fern capitalized on the sudden rise in ...

Campaigning for the literary marketplace: Nathaniel Hawthorne, David Bartlett, and the Life of Franklin Pierce.

Mar 01, 2008; Roggenkamp, Karen ... Since the 1824 presidential race, campaign biographies have constituted a distinct genre of American biographical literature. Awakened by the emerging power of a mass electorate, presidential candidates sought innovative strategies for delivering themselves and their political platforms to ...