Mary Howitt, Our Cousins in Ohio (Edinburgh Critical Editions of Nineteenth-century Texts)

Howitt, Mary/ Ulin, Donald Ingram (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2025/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399523578
• DDC分類 823.8

Full Description

This edition offers the complete text of the first published edition of Mary Howitt's Our Cousins in Ohio (1849), based on the letters sent by her immigrant sister in Cincinnati to her family in England. Supplementing the base text are a detailed record of all variants in the first London edition (1849), a critical introduction, explanatory notes, a selection of supplementary materials drawn from contemporary sources, a guide to the historical figures on which Howitt's characters were based and a guide to further scholarship on Howitt. Subjects include the daily activities of the immigrant family, as well as significant historical material, such as slavery, abolition and the persistence of northern racism; the Shakers; Native American boarding schools; the Mexican-American war; and more.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Series Preface
Editor's Preface
Abbreviations

Introduction: Narrating Life in a New Land: A Transatlantic Family Collaboration
Bibliography
Figures
Our Cousins in Ohio (New York, 1849)
Summary of Online Appendices
Appendix 1: Emma Alderson's Letters
Appendix 2: Selections from Mary Howitt's Other Publications
Appendix 3: Emigration Promoted and Discouraged
Appendix 4: Race, Slavery, Freedom
Appendix 5: Quakers, Native Americans and Boarding Schools
Appendix 6: Adventure Narratives and Our Cousins in Ohio

Afterword
Names Directory
Guide to Howitt Scholarship
Textual Notes