<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Winner of the College Language Association Book Award <p/>Frances Smith Foster has rediscovered three novels by Frances E. W. Harper, the best-known African-American writer of the nineteenth century and author of the classic Iola Leroy. Originally serialized in issues of <i>The Christian Recorder</i> between 1868 and 1888, these works address issues of passing, social responsibility, courtship, sexuality, and temperance, and are the first to have been written specifically for an African-American audience.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>The novels challenge everything we thought we knew about American literature, about African American culture and about the course of literary history. -Ann duCille, <i>The Women's Review of Books </i> <p/>Add[s] both depth and detail to the legacy of [Frances Harper]. -Bob McCollough, <i>The Boston Globe</i> <p/>A major publishing event. The Harper novels-lively, idealistic and fun to read-change the shape of our literary canon forever. Foster's introduction sizzles. If only all literary criticism could be like this! -Jane Tompkins, author of <i>Sensational Design</i> and <i>West of Everything</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Frances Smith Foster, professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego, and well-known scholar of nineteenth-century African-American literature, is author of <i>Witnessing Slavery: The Development of Ante-Bellum Slave Narratives</i>.
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