Carolyn L Karcher

Biographic Data

ID	680651
NAME	Carolyn L Karcher
GIVEN NAMES	Carolyn L
FAMILY NAME	Karcher
SIGNATURE	KARCHER C L
AFFILIATIONS	Temple University
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	23
TOTAL CITATIONS	7
AUTHOR COUNT	22
EDITOR COUNT	1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2023
H-INDEX	1

An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans: Revised and Updated Edition
Lydia Maria Child, Carolyn L KarcherBOOKAn Appeal in Favor of That Class…2023
A Refugee from His Race: Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight against White Supremacy
Carolyn L KarcherBOOKA refugee from his race2016
During one of the darkest periods of US history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the white writer-jurist-activist Albion W. Tourgée (1838-1905) forged an extraordinary alliance with African Americans. Acclaimed by blacks as “one of the best friends of the Afro-American people this country has ever produced” and reviled by white Southerners as a race traitor, Tourgée offers an ideal lens through which to re-exami…
Albion W. Tourgee and Louis A. Martinet: The Cross-Racial Friendship behind Plessy v. Ferguson
Carolyn L KarcherARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…2013References: 2
Does the idea of a cross-racial friendship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) sound outlandish? If so, why? At least part of the answer lies in what we think we know about the history of racial justice advocacy in the United States, especially when it involves collaboration between whites and African Americans. Most of the scholarship about cross-racial collaboration has highlighted the white paternalism that marred it. This focus, growing o…
Projections of the Holy Land: Melville's Journal through a Dual Lens
Open AccessCarolyn L KarcherARTICLELeviathan2011
The Pleasures of Reading Moby-Dick
Open AccessCarolyn L KarcherARTICLELeviathan2008
Ida B. Wells and her allies against lynching: A transnational perspective
Carolyn L KarcherARTICLEComparative American Studies An…2005References: 2
This article provides a transnational perspective on the alliance of the African American journalist Ida B. Wells with the white American writer Albion W. Tourgée and the British Quaker anti-imperialist Catherine Impey in seeking to mobilize British public opinion against the US national crime of lynching. It focuses on Wells's 1893 and 1894 lecture tours of the British Isles and on the journalism she, Tourgée and Impey produced during their coll…
In Memoriam
Open AccessCarolyn L KarcherARTICLELeviathan2000
An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
Patricia B Heaman, Lydia Maria Child et al.ARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…1999
An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. Lydia Maria Child. Edited with an Introduction by Carolyn L. Karcher. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1996. lxi + 207 pages. $40.00 cloth; $15.95 paper. Get access An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. Lydia Maria Child. Edited with an Introduction by Carolyn L. KarcherAmherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1996. lxi + 207 pages. $40.00 cloth; $15.95 paper. Patricia B.…
The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
A Kolodny, Carolyn L KarcherARTICLEAfrican American Review1998
The First Woman of the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
Andrea M Atkin, Carolyn L Karcher et al.ARTICLETulsa Studies in Women s Literature1996
Melville: A Biography
Carolyn L Karcher, Laurie Robertson-Lorant et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1996
The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
Dana D Nelson, Carolyn L KarcherARTICLEAmerican Literature1996
The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
Philip Gould, Carolyn L KarcherARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1996
For half a century Lydia Maria Child was a household name in the United States. Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Lydia Maria Child did not figure prominently as a pathbreaker. Although best known today for having edited Harriet A. Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, she pioneered almost every department of nineteenth-century American letters--the historical novel, the short story, children's literature,…
The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
Lois W Banner, Carolyn L Karcher et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1995
The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
Mary Kelley, Carolyn L KarcherARTICLEJournal of American History1995
Journal Article The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child. By Carolyn L. Karcher. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994. xxvi, 804 pp. $37.95, ISBN 0-82231485-1.) Get access Mary Kelley Mary Kelley Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 721–722, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Reconceiving Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Challenge of Women Writers
Carolyn L KarcherARTICLEAmerican Literature1994
Although the past ten years have seen a whole pantheon of American women writers resurrected from obscurity, a thoroughgoing reconceptualization of American literature itself has been slow to follow, and the paradigms that have dominated our literary history for nearly half a century have clung tenaciously to life. These paradigms can be summarized as follows. First, American writers have persistently shied away from the realistic depiction of so…
Rape, murder and revenge in ‘slavery's pleasant homes’: Lydia Maria child's antislavery fiction and the limits of genre
Open AccessCarolyn L KarcherARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum1986Cited by: 1References: 4
A Female Counter-Poetic
Open AccessCarolyn L Karcher, Wendy Martins et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1985
Male vision and female revision in James's the wings of the dove and Wharton's the house of mirth
Carolyn L KarcherARTICLEWomen s Studies1984
Shadow over the Promised Land: Slavery, Race, and Violence in Melville's America
Gloria T Hull, Carolyn L Karcher et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1981
Shadow over the Promised Land: Slavery, Race, and Violence in Melville's America
Lorman Ratner, Lorman A Ratner et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1980Cited by: 6
Journal Article Shadow over the Promised Land: Slavery, Race, and Violence in Melville's America. By Carolyn L. Karcher. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. xiv + 327 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $8.95.) Get access Lorman A. Ratner Lorman A. Ratner University of Wisconsin, Parkside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 3…
"Melville's "The 'Gees: A Forgotten Satire on Scientific Racism
Open AccessCarolyn L KarcherARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1975
ALMOST TOTAL OBSCURITY WHICH MELVILLE S THE 'GEES HAS KNOWN since its publication in Harper's Monthly in March, 1856, altogether belies considerable insight it furnishes into Melville's much debated racial views;' for sketch epitomizes Melville's manner of applying what he called the great Art of Telling Truth2 to explosive issues of race and slavery that were currently polarizing his countrymen. Like most of Melville's mature writings, The 'Gees…
The "Spiritual Lesson" of Melville's "The Apple-Tree Table
Open AccessCarolyn L KarcherARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1971
MELVILLE S THE APPLE-TREE TABLE, OR ORIGINAL SPIRITUAL MANIFEStations, enjoys a unique place among his works as a topical satire on a current religious movement: the Spiritualist cult of the 1850s. This historical asset has also proved a bane; for the apparent narrowness of its subject has consigned Apple-Tree Table to near oblivion. Yet aside from its literary merits, the story deserves closer study if only because, as Frank Davidson long ago po…

The "Spiritual Lesson" of Melville's "The Apple-Tree Table
Open AccessCarolyn L KarcherARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1971
MELVILLE S THE APPLE-TREE TABLE, OR ORIGINAL SPIRITUAL MANIFEStations, enjoys a unique place among his works as a topical satire on a current religious movement: the Spiritualist cult of the 1850s. This historical asset has also proved a bane; for the apparent narrowness of its subject has consigned Apple-Tree Table to near oblivion. Yet aside from its literary merits, the story deserves closer study if only because, as Frank Davidson long ago po…
"Melville's "The 'Gees: A Forgotten Satire on Scientific Racism
Open AccessCarolyn L KarcherARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1975
ALMOST TOTAL OBSCURITY WHICH MELVILLE S THE 'GEES HAS KNOWN since its publication in Harper's Monthly in March, 1856, altogether belies considerable insight it furnishes into Melville's much debated racial views;' for sketch epitomizes Melville's manner of applying what he called the great Art of Telling Truth2 to explosive issues of race and slavery that were currently polarizing his countrymen. Like most of Melville's mature writings, The 'Gees…
Shadow over the Promised Land: Slavery, Race, and Violence in Melville's America
Lorman Ratner, Lorman A Ratner et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1980Cited by: 6
Journal Article Shadow over the Promised Land: Slavery, Race, and Violence in Melville's America. By Carolyn L. Karcher. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980. xiv + 327 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $25.00; paper, $8.95.) Get access Lorman A. Ratner Lorman A. Ratner University of Wisconsin, Parkside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 3…
Shadow over the Promised Land: Slavery, Race, and Violence in Melville's America
Gloria T Hull, Carolyn L Karcher et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1981
Male vision and female revision in James's the wings of the dove and Wharton's the house of mirth
Carolyn L KarcherARTICLEWomen s Studies1984
A Female Counter-Poetic
Open AccessCarolyn L Karcher, Wendy Martins et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1985
Rape, murder and revenge in ‘slavery's pleasant homes’: Lydia Maria child's antislavery fiction and the limits of genre
Open AccessCarolyn L KarcherARTICLEWomen s Studies International Forum1986Cited by: 1References: 4
Reconceiving Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Challenge of Women Writers
Carolyn L KarcherARTICLEAmerican Literature1994
Although the past ten years have seen a whole pantheon of American women writers resurrected from obscurity, a thoroughgoing reconceptualization of American literature itself has been slow to follow, and the paradigms that have dominated our literary history for nearly half a century have clung tenaciously to life. These paradigms can be summarized as follows. First, American writers have persistently shied away from the realistic depiction of so…
The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
Lois W Banner, Carolyn L Karcher et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1995
The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
Mary Kelley, Carolyn L KarcherARTICLEJournal of American History1995
Journal Article The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child. By Carolyn L. Karcher. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1994. xxvi, 804 pp. $37.95, ISBN 0-82231485-1.) Get access Mary Kelley Mary Kelley Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 721–722, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
The First Woman of the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
Andrea M Atkin, Carolyn L Karcher et al.ARTICLETulsa Studies in Women s Literature1996
Melville: A Biography
Carolyn L Karcher, Laurie Robertson-Lorant et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1996
The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
Dana D Nelson, Carolyn L KarcherARTICLEAmerican Literature1996
The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
Philip Gould, Carolyn L KarcherARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1996
For half a century Lydia Maria Child was a household name in the United States. Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Lydia Maria Child did not figure prominently as a pathbreaker. Although best known today for having edited Harriet A. Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, she pioneered almost every department of nineteenth-century American letters--the historical novel, the short story, children's literature,…
The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
A Kolodny, Carolyn L KarcherARTICLEAfrican American Review1998
An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
Patricia B Heaman, Lydia Maria Child et al.ARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…1999
An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. Lydia Maria Child. Edited with an Introduction by Carolyn L. Karcher. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1996. lxi + 207 pages. $40.00 cloth; $15.95 paper. Get access An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. Lydia Maria Child. Edited with an Introduction by Carolyn L. KarcherAmherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1996. lxi + 207 pages. $40.00 cloth; $15.95 paper. Patricia B.…
In Memoriam
Open AccessCarolyn L KarcherARTICLELeviathan2000
Ida B. Wells and her allies against lynching: A transnational perspective
Carolyn L KarcherARTICLEComparative American Studies An…2005References: 2
This article provides a transnational perspective on the alliance of the African American journalist Ida B. Wells with the white American writer Albion W. Tourgée and the British Quaker anti-imperialist Catherine Impey in seeking to mobilize British public opinion against the US national crime of lynching. It focuses on Wells's 1893 and 1894 lecture tours of the British Isles and on the journalism she, Tourgée and Impey produced during their coll…
The Pleasures of Reading Moby-Dick
Open AccessCarolyn L KarcherARTICLELeviathan2008
Projections of the Holy Land: Melville's Journal through a Dual Lens
Open AccessCarolyn L KarcherARTICLELeviathan2011
Albion W. Tourgee and Louis A. Martinet: The Cross-Racial Friendship behind Plessy v. Ferguson
Carolyn L KarcherARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…2013References: 2
Does the idea of a cross-racial friendship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) sound outlandish? If so, why? At least part of the answer lies in what we think we know about the history of racial justice advocacy in the United States, especially when it involves collaboration between whites and African Americans. Most of the scholarship about cross-racial collaboration has highlighted the white paternalism that marred it. This focus, growing o…
A Refugee from His Race: Albion W. Tourgée and His Fight against White Supremacy
Carolyn L KarcherBOOKA refugee from his race2016
During one of the darkest periods of US history, when white supremacy was entrenching itself throughout the nation, the white writer-jurist-activist Albion W. Tourgée (1838-1905) forged an extraordinary alliance with African Americans. Acclaimed by blacks as “one of the best friends of the Afro-American people this country has ever produced” and reviled by white Southerners as a race traitor, Tourgée offers an ideal lens through which to re-exami…
An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans: Revised and Updated Edition
Lydia Maria Child, Carolyn L KarcherBOOKAn Appeal in Favor of That Class…2023