Women's literature from a regional perspective collection, 1977-1978.

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Women's literature from a regional perspective collection, 1977-1978.

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Material from a two-semester class taught in 1977-78 by Dr. Ann C. Carver of the UNC Charlotte English Department and funded through a grant from the Modern Languages Association. Contains reports, class planning materials and course evaluations, and student cultural autobiographies, research projects, and related course work materials. Includes studies of Gertrude Weil, Cherokee women, Nell Battle Lewis, Anna Burgwyn, evangelists the Reverend Preilo and Queen Estelle Thompson, Eunice Pace (female merchant in Saluda, N.C.), women in ECKANAR, and descendants of the Lefler and Alexander families in Cabarrus County in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

1.75 linear feet (349 items, including 249 slides and 19 cassette tapes)

University of North Carolina, Charlotte, J. Murrey Atkins Library

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University of North Carolina, Charlotte, J. Murrey Atkins Library

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The American Literature Group was formed in 1921, after the Modern Language Association (MLA) reluctantly acknowledged a growing scholarly interest in the writing of the United States. At the time such literature was studied primarily in secondary schools, and most colleges and universities had no courses on the topic. Those that did, usually offered only a single survey course. The idea that American literature could stand on its own as a discipline was viewed with skepticism, it b...

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