Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism - Couverture souple

Pfaelzer, Jean

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822956543 ISBN 13 : 9780822956549

Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996

Synopsis

Rebecca Harding Davis was a prominent author of radical social fiction during the latter half of the nineteenth century. In stories that combine realism with sentimentalism, Davis confronted a wide range of contemporary American issues, giving voice to working women, prostitutes, wives seeking divorce, celibate utopians, and female authors. Davis broke down distinctions between the private and the public worlds, distinctions that trapped women in the ideology of domesticity.



By engaging current strategies in literary hermeneutics with a strong sense of historical radicalism in the Gilded Age, Jean Pfaelzer reads Davis through the public issues that she forcefully inscribed in her fiction. In this study, Davis's realistic narratives actively construct a coherent social work, not in a fictional vacuum but in direct engagement with the explosive movements of social change from the Civil War through the turn of the century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jean Pfaelzer is professor of English and American Studies at the University of Delaware.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822956543
• ISBN 13: 9780822956549
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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