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Parlor radical : Rebecca Harding Davis and the origins of American social realism
- Title
- Parlor radical : Rebecca Harding Davis and the origins of American social realism / Jean Pfaelzer.
- Author
- Pfaelzer, Jean
- Publication
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1996], ©1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS1517.Z5 P48 1996 | Off-site |
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- Subject
- Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910 > Criticism and interpretation
- Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century
- Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century
- Radicalism > United States > History > 19th century
- Social problems in literature
- Social realism in literature
- Radicalism in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-273) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction: History, Narrative, and Subjectivity -- 2. The Terrible Question of "Life in the Iron-Mills" -- 3. The Common Story of Margret Howth -- 4. The Savage Necessity of Abolition and Civil War -- 5. The Soul Starvation of the Domestic Woman -- 6. Race, Reconstruction, and the Discourse of Sentiment: Waiting for the Verdict -- 7. Nature, Nurture, and Nationalism: "A Faded Leaf of History" -- 8. The Politics of Nature: "The Yares of Black Mountain" -- 9. To Be, to Do, and to Suffer: The New Woman.
- ISBN
- 0822939509 (alk. paper)
- 0822956071 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96012742
- OCLC
- ocm34411764
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries