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- catalog abstract "In an excellent critical introduction, Jean Pfaelzer integrates cultural, historical, and psychological approaches in penetrating readings of Davis's work. She emphasizes how Davis's fictional embrace of the commonplace was instrumental in the demise of American romanticism and in eroding the repressive cultural expectations for women. Despite the need to support her husband, an impoverished young lawyer, and despite editorial pressures to exclude "unfeminine" social realities from her work, Rebecca Harding Davis refused to be silent about, as she put it, the "signification [of the] voices of the world." In the stories and essays included in this anthology, Davis gave voice to working women, slaves, freedmen, fishermen, prostitutes, wives seeking divorce, celibate utopians, and female authors. These tales entail powerful confrontations with domesticity as an ideology and sentimentality as a literary mode. As typified in her most famous story, "Life in the Iron-Mills," Davis drew creatively on a variety of literary tropes from the domestic novel, travel literature, gothic tales, and regionalism in emotional calls for reform. In both fiction and nonfiction, Davis attacked contemporary questions such as slavery, prostitution, divorce, the Spanish-American War, the colonization of Africa, the plight of the rural South, northern racism, environmental pollution, and degraded work conditions generated by the rise of heavy industry. Written from the standpoint of a critical observer in the midst of things, Davis's work vividly recreates the social and ideological ferment of post-Civil War United States.".
- catalog contributor b7861982.
- catalog contributor b7861983.
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions 1865-1918.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social conditions 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs 19th century Fiction.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Despite the need to support her husband, an impoverished young lawyer, and despite editorial pressures to exclude "unfeminine" social realities from her work, Rebecca Harding Davis refused to be silent about, as she put it, the "signification [of the] voices of the world." In the stories and essays included in this anthology, Davis gave voice to working women, slaves, freedmen, fishermen, prostitutes, wives seeking divorce, celibate utopians, and female authors. These tales entail powerful confrontations with domesticity as an ideology and sentimentality as a literary mode. As typified in her most famous story, "Life in the Iron-Mills," Davis drew creatively on a variety of literary tropes from the domestic novel, travel literature, gothic tales, and regionalism in emotional calls for reform.".
- catalog description "In an excellent critical introduction, Jean Pfaelzer integrates cultural, historical, and psychological approaches in penetrating readings of Davis's work. She emphasizes how Davis's fictional embrace of the commonplace was instrumental in the demise of American romanticism and in eroding the repressive cultural expectations for women.".
- catalog description "In both fiction and nonfiction, Davis attacked contemporary questions such as slavery, prostitution, divorce, the Spanish-American War, the colonization of Africa, the plight of the rural South, northern racism, environmental pollution, and degraded work conditions generated by the rise of heavy industry. Written from the standpoint of a critical observer in the midst of things, Davis's work vividly recreates the social and ideological ferment of post-Civil War United States.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 463-483).".
- catalog description "The common stories of Rebecca Harding Davis, an introduction -- Fiction : Life in the iron-mills -- John Lamar -- David Gaunt -- Blind Tom -- The wife's story -- Out of the sea -- The harmonists -- The story of Christine -- In the market -- Earthen pitchers -- Dolly -- The yares of black mountains -- Marcia -- A day with Dr. Sarah -- Anne -- Essays: Men's rights -- A faded leaf of history -- The middle-aged woman -- The house on the beach -- Some testimony in the case -- Women in literature -- The newly discovered woman -- In the gray cabins of New England -- Two points of view -- Two methods with the negro -- The work before us -- The mean face of war -- Lord Kitchener's methods -- The "Black North" -- Boston in the sixties -- Undistinguished Americans.".
- catalog extent "li, 483 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Rebecca Harding Davis reader.".
- catalog identifier "0822938871 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Rebecca Harding Davis reader.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press,".
- catalog relation "Rebecca Harding Davis reader.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions 1865-1918.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social conditions 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs 19th century Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.4 20".
- catalog subject "Domestic fiction, American.".
- catalog subject "PS1517 .A6 1995".
- catalog subject "Women iron and steel workers Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Women iron and steel workers United States Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Working class women Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Working class women United States Fiction.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The common stories of Rebecca Harding Davis, an introduction -- Fiction : Life in the iron-mills -- John Lamar -- David Gaunt -- Blind Tom -- The wife's story -- Out of the sea -- The harmonists -- The story of Christine -- In the market -- Earthen pitchers -- Dolly -- The yares of black mountains -- Marcia -- A day with Dr. Sarah -- Anne -- Essays: Men's rights -- A faded leaf of history -- The middle-aged woman -- The house on the beach -- Some testimony in the case -- Women in literature -- The newly discovered woman -- In the gray cabins of New England -- Two points of view -- Two methods with the negro -- The work before us -- The mean face of war -- Lord Kitchener's methods -- The "Black North" -- Boston in the sixties -- Undistinguished Americans.".
- catalog title "A Rebecca Harding Davis reader : "Life in the iron-mills," selected fiction & essays / edited, with a critical introduction by Jean Pfaelzer.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".