Wit, Wisdom, and Courage
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In this class you will be working with both primary and secondary resources. This guide provides a selection of recommended research strategies, background resources, databases for finding articles, and information on library services to assist your research. |
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Research Assignment
The assignment:
English 2890: Women and Social Movements in the U.S. Dr. Jami Carlacio <JLC225@cornell.edu> DUE: 2/06: in-class large-group workshop (everyone must have a rough draft typed up and posted to his/her wiki page) 2/09: final version due in class + on wiki Readings for this assignment: - Documents from Cornell's May Anti-Slavery Collection - Speeches of Maria Stewart: <http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs/wwm9722/> - Two chapters from Lydia Maria Child's Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans - Angelina Grimke's Speech at Pennsylvania Hall: - Welter's essay on the "Cult of True Womanhood" - Selected periodicals from the Kroch RMC Your writing task: Option One: Read the materials for this section and in your introduction, set up the context for your analysis. Choose the writings of one of the women we've studied in this unit to analyze rhetorically (refer to your notes for ideas on how to rhetorically analyze texts). Your analysis must include at least one text from the Kroch RMC. Questions you should consider are: What is the writer's main message (not just "we should end slavery")? How does she develop her argument? What are the most significant rhetorical features of her prose? Given what you know about women in the early nineteenth century ("cult of true womanhood"), how might her words have been received? Option Two: Review one or two issues of The Liberator – the most influential periodical dedicated to the anti-slavery cause. Write an essay that analyzes both text and image (if images accompany the article) that you believe communicates the message of the abolitionist movement in rhetorically effective ways. You will want to contextualize your essay with information on this periodical, what its rhetorical purpose was, and what the particular issue you're looking at fulfills that purpose. It may be that you look at the text of an outspoken orator and examine the coverage of that text (speech) in The Liberator. Refer to paper guidelines in syllabus Location for some materials in the Kroch RMC: * Lydia Maria Child's political pamphlets collected together in one box: Includes titles such as: Authentic Anecdotes of American Slavery; Anti-Slavery Catechism; Appeal to the Women of Nominally Free States and others. Rare Books E441.C53 nos. 1-11 * The Liberator. Boston, Mass.: William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp, 1831-1865. Volume One, 1831 Rare Books E441.A3 L69 +++
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