grantor: University of TorontoRebecca Harding Davis's radical voice of social protest emerges out of her roots in the liminal culture of antebellum western Virginia. In her hometown of Wheeling, Davis grew up positioned where East met West, where North met South, and where the slaveholders' mythology of pastoral paternalism met the rising forces of industrial capitalism. Reared north of the Mason-Dixon line but in a slaveholding society, Davis always cherished her Virginian background and preserved a fond nostalgia for the Southern way of life. An important part of Davis's borderland cultural heritage was the rhetoric used to defend slavery, in both fiction and nonfiction. The tradition of the plantation novel and depictions of wh...
The debate over slavery was one of the catalysts for Sara Josepha Hale\u27s emergence from the domes...
276 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.This dissertation examines sh...
In my study of Southern Narrative, I attempt to counter the general assumption that Southern literat...
grantor: University of TorontoRebecca Harding Davis's radical voice of social protest emer...
In her 1904 memoir, Bits of Gossip, American journalist and fiction writer Rebecca Harding Davis wro...
This thesis examines three of Rebecca Harding Davis’s writings published by the Atlantic Monthly f...
This study analyzes representations in American fiction of social issues during periods of national ...
The decades leading up to the Civil War were fabulously rich ones for American literature—an “Americ...
369 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.How has the myth of Southern ...
In literature, place orients a reader, puts a story in context, and alerts one to language and diale...
Life in the Iron-Mills (1861) by Rebecca Harding Davis is a very early example of American fiction t...
What is southern literature? My study examines the role literary critics have played in constructing...
For many earlier southern white writers, the southern rural landscape was the repository of nostalgi...
Long before her son, Richard Harding Davis, became a star reporter, Rebecca Harding Davis worked for...
175 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.Although the South has been a...
The debate over slavery was one of the catalysts for Sara Josepha Hale\u27s emergence from the domes...
276 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.This dissertation examines sh...
In my study of Southern Narrative, I attempt to counter the general assumption that Southern literat...
grantor: University of TorontoRebecca Harding Davis's radical voice of social protest emer...
In her 1904 memoir, Bits of Gossip, American journalist and fiction writer Rebecca Harding Davis wro...
This thesis examines three of Rebecca Harding Davis’s writings published by the Atlantic Monthly f...
This study analyzes representations in American fiction of social issues during periods of national ...
The decades leading up to the Civil War were fabulously rich ones for American literature—an “Americ...
369 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001.How has the myth of Southern ...
In literature, place orients a reader, puts a story in context, and alerts one to language and diale...
Life in the Iron-Mills (1861) by Rebecca Harding Davis is a very early example of American fiction t...
What is southern literature? My study examines the role literary critics have played in constructing...
For many earlier southern white writers, the southern rural landscape was the repository of nostalgi...
Long before her son, Richard Harding Davis, became a star reporter, Rebecca Harding Davis worked for...
175 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.Although the South has been a...
The debate over slavery was one of the catalysts for Sara Josepha Hale\u27s emergence from the domes...
276 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.This dissertation examines sh...
In my study of Southern Narrative, I attempt to counter the general assumption that Southern literat...