"Driven Out" exposes a shocking story of ethnic cleansing in California and the Pacific Northwest when the first Chinese Americans were rounded up and purged from more than three hundred communities by lawless citizens and duplicitous politicians. From 1848 into the twentieth century, Chinatowns burned across the West as Chinese miners and ...
This study considers Rebecca Harding Davis as literary activist, weaving together the literary and the historical to show how she fashioned contemporary narratives to promote the route to reform. Her tales of slaves, child prostitutes and mill workers are shown to have stimulated political action.
"This rich new collection, graced by a detailed scholarly introduction by Jean Pfaelzer, (is for) everyone from Davis scholars to those interested in the foremothers of modern social protest fiction". Laura Hapke, Belles Lettres
This book about an 1880s radical feminist utopia includes a new, extensive introduction that provides critical apparatus to appropriately place "Mizora" and author Mary Bradley Lane in the cultural and historical context of the 19th century.
This study considers Davis as a literary activist, showing how she fashioned contemporary narrative forms to kindle the emotive route to reform. It links America's first social realist to political expressions of grief, rage, and loss that shaped exhortations in abolitionist stories and poetry.
"This rich new collection, graced by a detailed scholarly introduction by Jean Pfaelzer, (is for) everyone from Davis scholars to those interested in the foremothers of modern social protest fiction". Laura Hapke, Belles Lettres
This is a collection of Rebecca Harding Davis's writings, who published in popular periodicals over the latter half of the 19th century. The tales combine realism with sentimentalism, while at the same time, Davis also wrote about contemporary issues including those that affected women.
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