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The Hands of Labor: Depictions of Antebellum Authorship and the Shaping of Class In the Willis Family (Nathaniel Parker Willis, Fanny Fern, and Harriet Jacobs)
… period: the Willis family, and especially author Fanny Fern, her brother Nathanial Parker Willis, and his servant, ex-slave Harriet Jacobs.</p> <p>While N. P. Willis portrayed the work of writing as an effortless task, depicting himself jotting down lines in ease and comfort, Fern equated writing …
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Radical Retreats: Sentimentalism, Separate Spheres, and the Domestic Turn in American Women's Fiction, 1850--1940
… in the works of American female writers---Fanny Fern, Elizabeth Stoddard, Jessie Fauset, and Dorothy Parker---who dramatize movement across social spaces, this dissertation characterizes mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century female movement into the public sphere as unconfident, …
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Women and Humor: A Linguistic and Rhetorical Analysis of Joke Target
Authors Marietta Holley, Fanny Fern and Harriet Beecher Stowe produced works of humorous fiction, parody and satire to advance discussion on the question of women’s suffrage and equality. Using The General Theory of Verbal Humor (Attardo and Raskin, 1994; Attardo, 1994) to analyze some of the joke …
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Self-fashioning (Im)Possibilities: A Literary Tapestry of Women at Work in Nineteenth-Century America
… by class and gender in Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's novel The Story of Avis, the first chapter illuminates the stasis inherent in the lives housekeepers, cooks, laundresses, and babysitters, women whose labor supports the middle-class. In Chapter Two, the …