Word by Word

For Kory Stamper's 2017 book, see Kory Stamper.

Word by Word

Original cover
Author	Christopher Hager
Subject	United States Civil War history, African-American literary criticism
Published	2013 (Harvard University Press) [1]
Pages	328 [1]
ISBN	978-0-674-05986-3 [2]

Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing is a 2013 historical book and analysis of a collection of writings by American slaves and befreed slaves. It was written by Christopher Hager and published by Harvard University Press.

Reception

The book received the 2014 Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (Yale University). ^[3]

See also

• Maria Perkins letter

References

1. Follett 2013.
2. Kirkus Reviews 2012.
3. Yale n.d.

Sources

• "2014 Frederick Douglass Book Prize – Trinity College Professor Wins the Sixteenth Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize". Yale University Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. n.d. Archived from the original on April 8, 2016. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
• Bly, Antonio T. (2013). "Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing". African American Review. 46 (2/3): 546–547. doi:10.1353/afa.2013.0066. ISSN   1062-4783. S2CID   160573258.
• Davis, Thomas J. (2013). "Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing". Library Journal. 138 (4): 84. ISSN   0363-0277 . Retrieved February 15, 2016.
• Dean, Janet (June 2014). ""Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911/Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing/Fever Reading: Affect and Reading Badly in the Early American Public Sphere...". American Literature. 86 (2): 397–400. doi:10.1215/00029831-2647054. ISSN   0002-9831.
• Fitzgerald, Michael W. (March 2014). "Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing". Journal of American History. 100 (4): 1212–1213. doi:10.1093/jahist/jau053. ISSN   0021-8723.
• Follett, Richard (July 4, 2013). "Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing: Books". Times Higher Education (2108): 52–53. ISSN   0049-3929. Archived from the original on March 9, 2016.
• Freeburg, Christopher (January 2015). "Chasing Slavery's Ghost". American Literary History. 27 (1): 102–113. doi:10.1093/alh/aju067. ISSN   0896-7148. S2CID   145773545.
• Green, T. T.1 (August 2013). "Word by word: emancipation and the act of writing". Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. 50 (12): 2228. ISSN   0009-4978.
• Newman, Judie (February 2014). "Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing". Journal of American Studies. 48 (1): 333–334. doi:10.1017/S0021875813002077. ISSN   1469-5154. S2CID   145526278.
• Sinha, Manisha (December 2013). "The Complicated Histories of Emancipation: State of the Field at 150". Reviews in American History. 41 (4): 665–671. doi:10.1353/rah.2013.0111. ISSN   0048-7511. S2CID   144754561. ProQuest   1470071724.
• Sternhell, Yael A. (November 2014). "Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing". Journal of Southern History. 80 (4): 997–998. ISSN   0022-4642 . Retrieved February 15, 2016.
• "WORD BY WORD Emancipation and the Act of Writing". Kirkus Reviews. 80 (23): 230. 2012. ISSN   1948-7428. Archived from the original on October 8, 2015. Retrieved February 15, 2016.
• "Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing". Publishers Weekly. 259 (50): 51. December 10, 2012. ISSN   0000-0019 . Retrieved February 15, 2016.
• "American Literature". Reference & Research Book News. 28 (3): 174–177. June 2013. ISSN   0887-3763 . Retrieved February 15, 2016.
• Kevin Eagan, "Interview with Christopher Hager, Author of Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing", Critical Margins, August 14, 2013.

External links

• Official website
• Word by Word at Google Books