A Rebecca Harding Davis reader
Original title: Rebecca Harding Davis reader
first published 1995 University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995 483 pages
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 despit...
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