Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Thomas Wentworth Higginson by HigginsonAuthor: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Apr 17, 2019

Editor's review

This index gathers the titles of Thomas Wentworth Higginson's works available on Project Gutenberg. Higginson was a nineteenth-century American writer and supporter of the abolitionist movement, whose writing spans essays, biography, and literary criticism; this volume supplies only bibliographic pointers, not the substance of his arguments. As a tool, its strengths are brevity, free access, and searchability: it helps readers locate Higginson's works quickly among a vast public-domain English e-book collection, without blind searching. It works well as a gateway to the study of American literature and nineteenth-century social thought: first use the index to survey the distribution of his works, then choose the originals for close reading. For general readers, reading the index straight through has limited value; it is better treated as a reference list. For digital humanities scholars or librarians, it offers a view of how Project Gutenberg organizes indexes by author. Overall, this is a practical bibliographic document, not something to read as a main text.

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University teachers and students studying nineteenth-century American literature and social thought
Researchers seeking public-domain e-texts of Higginson's works
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Reading tips

Use the index as a search tool: skim the subject categories first, then jump to the originals that interest you.
Read it alongside background material on nineteenth-century abolitionism and American literature to understand the issues behind the titles.
Keep a table of the works and categories listed in the index to build a personal reading or research list.
No need to read page by page; looking up a few entries around one theme at a time is more efficient.

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FAQ

Does this index contain Higginson's complete works?

It covers only the Higginson works Project Gutenberg has digitized, not his entire output. It shows the range of texts available within the project; works outside it must be sought elsewhere.

Who was Higginson, and why is he worth attention?

Higginson was a nineteenth-century American writer and social activist, closely connected with the abolitionist movement and literary circles. This index provides pointers to his public-domain English works and serves as a starting point for related historical and literary study.

How should an index like this be read?

Not from cover to cover. Skim the categories and titles first, mark the entries relevant to your needs, then jump to the originals; you can also use it as a bibliographic checking tool.

How is it different from an ordinary e-book?

An ordinary e-book provides full text, whereas this index provides only a list of works and pointers to where to find them. It is a navigational document whose value lies in searching and organizing material, not in continuous reading.

This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.

About the author

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 Author

Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) was an American writer, abolitionist and soldier, with ten works held in this collection. His writing ranges widely across history, military life, literary biography, essays and fiction: Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts recounts slave uprisings, while Army Life in a Black Regiment draws on his own experience leading a Black regiment; both are closely tied to the history of American abolition and the Civil War. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a life of the poet, A Book of American Explorers and Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic turn to exploration history and Atlantic island legends, and Malbone: An Oldport Romance, Oldport Days and Women and the Alphabet: A Series of Essays offer, respectively, a novel of manners, seaside sketches and essays on women and education. His style is plain and clear, combining a historian's rigor with an essayist's ease. Because the available material is limited, a detailed account of his life cannot be given here.