Add to ORKGThis thesis examines three of Rebecca Harding Davis’s writings published by the Atlantic Monthly from 1860 to 1862. Davis begins with questioning capitalist claims of building a middle class in “Life in the Iron Mills.” In less than two years, the censure of Davis’s first work softens in a more merciful tone in her first novel Margret Howth. By the time Davis publishes the short story “David Gaunt” in 1862, her message of tolerance becomes more overtly political as it questions the necessity of the Civil War and foreshadows the trials of Reconstruction. The sole character type that escapes harsh reproach in these stories manifests in the plain female who is not merely tolerant but without prejudice regardless of race, class, gen...
This thesis examines the ways in which three African-American women writers challenge the racist and...
The decades leading up to the Civil War were fabulously rich ones for American literature—an “Americ...
226 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.Writing Resistance: The Polit...
grantor: University of TorontoRebecca Harding Davis's radical voice of social protest emer...
Life in the Iron-Mills (1861) by Rebecca Harding Davis is a very early example of American fiction t...
In her 1904 memoir, Bits of Gossip, American journalist and fiction writer Rebecca Harding Davis wro...
This paper examines how Rebecca Harding Davis’s 1861 story “Life in the Iron Mills” directly engages...
Long before her son, Richard Harding Davis, became a star reporter, Rebecca Harding Davis worked for...
Many women writers between 1840 and 1870 were producing a particular form of social or "social ...
This dissertation demonstrates the ways in which nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American wo...
This project demonstrates the crucial role late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women\u27s reform...
This dissertation demonstrates why it is important to recover works by conservative Victorian women ...
In this paper, I examine the issue of social justice in Elizabeth Gaskell\u27s three novels Ruth, Ma...
In nineteenth-century American literature, the trope of the “female individualist” is one who cultiv...
The origin and development of the New Woman character-type in late nineteenth, early twentieth centu...
This thesis examines the ways in which three African-American women writers challenge the racist and...
The decades leading up to the Civil War were fabulously rich ones for American literature—an “Americ...
226 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.Writing Resistance: The Polit...
grantor: University of TorontoRebecca Harding Davis's radical voice of social protest emer...
Life in the Iron-Mills (1861) by Rebecca Harding Davis is a very early example of American fiction t...
In her 1904 memoir, Bits of Gossip, American journalist and fiction writer Rebecca Harding Davis wro...
This paper examines how Rebecca Harding Davis’s 1861 story “Life in the Iron Mills” directly engages...
Long before her son, Richard Harding Davis, became a star reporter, Rebecca Harding Davis worked for...
Many women writers between 1840 and 1870 were producing a particular form of social or "social ...
This dissertation demonstrates the ways in which nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American wo...
This project demonstrates the crucial role late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women\u27s reform...
This dissertation demonstrates why it is important to recover works by conservative Victorian women ...
In this paper, I examine the issue of social justice in Elizabeth Gaskell\u27s three novels Ruth, Ma...
In nineteenth-century American literature, the trope of the “female individualist” is one who cultiv...
The origin and development of the New Woman character-type in late nineteenth, early twentieth centu...
This thesis examines the ways in which three African-American women writers challenge the racist and...
The decades leading up to the Civil War were fabulously rich ones for American literature—an “Americ...
226 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.Writing Resistance: The Polit...