A Rebecca Harding Davis reader

Rebecca Harding Davis

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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Rebecca Harding Davis Reader edition · 2014 · University of Pittsburgh Press · 9781322025469
Rebecca Harding Davis Reader edition · 2014 · University of Pittsburgh Press · 536 pages · 9780822980674
A Rebecca Harding Davis Reader Life In The Ironmills Selected Fiction Essays edition · 1995 · University of Pittsburgh Press · 9780822955696
Rebecca Harding Davis reader edition · 1995 · University of Pittsburgh Press · 640 pages
A Rebecca Harding Davis reader edition · 1995 · University of Pittsburgh Press · 483 pages

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