A Passionate Usefulness: The Life And Literary Labors Of Hannah Adams,Used

A Passionate Usefulness: The Life And Literary Labors Of Hannah Adams,Used

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In a literary environment dominated by men, the first American to earn a living as a writer and to establish a reputation on both sides of the Atlantic was, miraculously, a woman. Hannah Adams dared to enterand in some ways was forced to entera sphere of literature that had, in eighteenthcentury America, been solely a male province. Driven by poverty and necessity, and aided by an extraordinarily adept mind and keen sense of business, Adams authored works on New England history, sectarian history, and Jewish history, using and citing the most recent scholarly works being published in Great Britain and America. As a female writer, she would always remain something of an outsider, but her accomplishments did not by any means go unrecognized: embraced by the Boston intelligentsia and highly regarded throughout New England, Adams came to epitomize the possibility in a democratic society that anyone could rise to a circle of intellectual elites.In A Passionate Usefulness, the first booklength biography of this remarkable figure, Gary Schmidt focuses primarily on the intimate connection between Adamss reading and her own literary work. Hers is the story of incipient scholarship in the new nation, the story of a dependence that evolved into intellectual independence. Schmidt sets Adamss works in the context of her early poverty and desperate family situation, her decadelong feud with one of New Englands most powerful Calvinist ministers, her alliance with the budding Unitarian movement in Boston, and her work establishing the first evangelical mission to Palestine (a task she accomplished virtually singlehandedly).Today Adams still holds a place not only as a female writer who made her way economically in the book business before any other womanor male writercould do so, but also as a key figure in the transitional generation between the American Revolution and the Renaissance upon whose groundwork much of the countrys later literature would build.

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