Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream: An African American Writer's (Re)Visionary Gospel of Success

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Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream This page intentionally left blank. Pauline Hopkins and the American Dream An African American Writer’s (Re)Visionary Gospel of Success Alisha R. Knight The University of Tennessee Press / Knoxville An earlier version of chapter 2 appeared as “Furnace Blasts for the Tuskegee Wizard” in American Periodicals 17.1 (2007): 41–64, published by The Ohio State University Press. It is used here with the permission of the publisher. An earlier version of chapter 4 appeared as “‘All Things Work Together for Good’: Pauline Hopkins’s Race Woman and the Gospel of Success” in Loopholes and Retreats: African American Writers and the Nineteenth Century, edited by John Cullen Gruesser and Hanna Wallinger (Vienna: Lit Verlag, 2009), 125–40. It is used here with the permission of the publisher. a Copyright © 2012 by The University of Tennessee Press / Knoxville. All Rights Reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. First Edition. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Knight, Alisha R. Pauline Hopkins and the American dream: an African American writer’s (re)visionary gospel of success / Alisha R. Knight. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. eISBN-13: 978-1-57233-889-0 eISBN-10: 1-57233-889-X 1. Hopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth)—Criticism and interpretation. 2. American fiction—African American authors—History and criticism. 3. American fiction—Women authors—History and criticism. 4. African American women authors—Intellectual life. I. Title. PS1999.H4226Z73 2012 818'.409—dc22 2011041682 ...