Literary Criticism / Women Authors

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Changing Minds

Changing Minds

Women and the Political Essay, 1960-2000

How Five Prominent Women Writers Reshaped the Essay in the Late Twentieth Century

Parlor Radical

Parlor Radical

Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism

Rebecca Harding Davis was a prominent author of radical social fiction during the latter half of the nineteenth century. She confronted a wide range of contemporary American issues, giving voice to working women, prostitutes, wives seeking divorce, celibate utopians, and female authors. By engaging current strategies in literary hermeneutics with a strong sense of historical radicalism in the Gilded Age, Jean Pfaelzer reads Davis through the public issues that she forcefully inscribed in her fiction.

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