Libraries & Culture articles from January 2006

Libraries & Culture archives from January 2006

Preface.(World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893)
January 1, 2006... From May to October 1893 the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago registered more than 27 million admissions of people who came to see the exhibits, explore the grounds, and take in the myriad scientific, technological, and cultural wonders...

Symmetrical womanhood: poetry in the woman's building library.
January 1, 2006... Late-nineteenth-century women poets shed midcentury sentimentality unevenly and at some cost, losing a sense of privacy, a (Christian) frame of reference, and an "imagined community" of women who shared their worldview. They also gained more...

Publicizing domestic piety: the cultural work of religious texts in the Woman's Building Library.
January 1, 2006... The Woman's Building Library at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 included many texts that could be classified as "religious." In bringing a large body of women's publications together in one place, the Woman's Building's organizers...

African American women's writings in the Woman's Building Library.
January 1, 2006... This article surveys six African American women whose work was represented in the Woman's Building Library exhibit at the Columbian Exposition: Elleanor Eldridge, Victoria Earle, A. Julia Foote, Frances Harper, Henrietta Cordelia Ray, and T. T...

Uncle Tom's Cabin at the World's Columbian Exposition.
January 1, 2006... The framing of Uncle Tom's Cabin in the Columbian Exposition raises questions about the appeal of Stowe's novel for post-Civil War readers. I tackle those questions by considering the governing conception behind the Stowe exhibit and then...

Illinois women's novels at the Woman's Building Library.(Chicago World's Fair Woman's Building Library)
January 1, 2006... This article analyzes the fifty-eight novels by Illinois women selected for the Woman's Building Library and reveals their significance within the larger cultural context. The Illinois fiction provides an important example of the way a culture...

Little Pilgrims' Progress: literary horizons for children's literature.(Woman's Building Library at the Chicago World's Fair)
January 1, 2006... The Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition highlighted works by women authors, many of whom wrote for or about children, in the decade before children's literature was institutionalized by publishers and librarians. This...

Afterword: the Woman's Building Library and history.(Woman's Building Library at the Chicago World Fair)
January 1, 2006... This afterword reflects on the articles in this special issue on the Woman's Building Library and observes that each article argues that the books held in the library speak to tensions in women's roles and shifts in women's writing in...

The cover.(Woman's Building Library )(Cover story)
January 1, 2006... The materials in the Woman's Building Library emanated from forty American states and territories, the District of Columbia, and twenty-three foreign countries, distributed across four continents. (1) They included valuable manuscripts and rare...