He Heard America Sing (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Claire Lee Purdy
- First Published: 1940
- Time of Work: 1826–1864
- Setting: Pennsylvania, Ohio, the Mississippi River, and New York City
- Principal Characters: Stephen Foster, Mrs. Foster, Mr. Foster, Morrison (Mit) Foster, Dunning Foster, William Foster, Jane (Jeanie) McDowell, Jean Herbst, Henry Kleber
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, United States or Americans, Nineteenth century, Music or musicians, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Spirituals, Songs or songwriters, Composers, Biography
- Locales: New York, NY, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Mississippi River
Form and Content
Claire Lee Purdy’s He Heard America Sing: The Story of Stephen Foster is a deliberately fictionalized, chronological account of essential biographical facts about Foster embedded in family anecdotes and examples of local color. The chronology is interrupted three times. In chapter 2, Mrs. Foster reminisces about her happy childhood among the tobacco plantations of Delaware and Maryland. In chapter 6, Mr. Foster recalls his adventurous years as a young man employed with a trading company out of Pittsburgh, down the Mississippi River to the Delta, along...
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