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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Rebecca Harding Davis"”.
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Revolution, Reform, and Class Conflict in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron-Mills
<p><em>Life in the Iron-Mills </em>(1861) by Rebecca Harding Davis is a very early example of American fiction that depicts the living and working conditions in a mill town. Although the novella advocates for workers, it does not accurately depict contemporaneous working-class culture. Davis …
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Creating the Appalachian Woman: An Anthology of Appalachian Women Writers, 1865-1884.
… six authors are included: Elizabeth Appleton, Rebecca Harding Davis, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Constance Fenimore Woolson, Sherwood Bonner, and Mary Noailles Murfree. Topics addressed include nineteenth-century women as authors, the influence of northern literary magazines on regional writing, …
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Public Politics, Private God: Political Rhetoric of Religious Morality in Selected American Social Novels
… Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Rebecca Harding Davis' “Life in the Iron Mills,” Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath—employing historical, social, political, and rhetorical interpretative strategies. I argue that the use of religious language …
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Religion and realism in late nineteenth-century American literature
… and Realism: “Let Fiction Cease to Lie”; 2) Rebecca Harding Davis and Sentimental Literary Realism; 3) William Dean Howells as Writer and Critic of American Literary Realism; 4) Mark Twain and the Bible: “I See It Warn’t Nothing but a Dictionary”; 5) Harold Frederic and Realism: The Damnation …
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Ecologies of addiction in nineteenth-century American literature and culture
… culture. Writers such as Charles Brockden Brown, Rebecca Harding Davis, Charles Dickens, Frank J. Webb, and Lydia Sigourney countered traditional moral conceptions of intemperance by materially linking mental and physical states to environmental conditions, social structures, and economic systems. …
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Faith positions: Re -reading gender, race, and Christianity in nineteenth -century American women's writing
… nineteenth-century American women---Jarena Lee, Rebecca Harding Davis, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Frances Harper---to consider the ways in which religious belief, and the narratives shaped by belief, respond to experiences defined by gender and race.</p><p>As Jenny Franchot and Carolyn Haynes …