5/8/2023 0 Comments Wayward lives![]() A virtuosic work of scholarship that recovers fragments of the lives of women who were supposed to be forgotten. These are dishy, illuminating, and heartbreaking stories about the knotted relationship between desire and freedom.-Kat Stoeffelīrilliant. The result is an effect more usually associated with fiction than history, of inspiring a powerful imaginative empathy-not only towards characters in the distant past but towards the strangers all around us, whose humanity we share.-Joanna Scutts ![]() In granting these forgotten women a voice, and conjuring their longing for freedom, Hartman resists the century-long diminution of their lives to social problems. ![]() Hartman has influenced an entire generation of scholars and afforded readers a proximity to the past that would otherwise be foreclosed.-MacArthur Foundation ![]()
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