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Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans

Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans more books like this

by Jean Pfaelzer

This sweeping and groundbreaking work presents the shocking and violent history of ethnic cleansing against Chinese Americans from the Gold Rush era to the turn of the century.

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Parlor Radical

Parlor Radical more books like this

by Jean Pfaelzer

Rebecca Harding Davis was a prominent author of radical social fiction during the latter half of the nineteenth century. In stories that combine realism with sentimentalism, Davis confronted a wide range of contemporary American issues, giving voice to working women, slaves, freedmen, fishermen, prostitutes, wives seeking divorce, celibate ...

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Utopian Novel in America, 1886-1896: the Politics of Form. [Subtitle]: (Critical Essays in Modern Literature. )

by Jean Pfaelzer

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The Post-Rapture Diner: Life in the Iron-Mills, Selected Fiction, and Essays.

The Post-Rapture Diner: Life in the Iron-Mills, Selected Fiction, and Essays. more books like this

by Jean Pfaelzer (Editor)

In both fiction and nonfiction, Davis attacked contemporary questions such as slavery, prostitution, divorce, the Spanish-American War, the colonization of Africa, the plight of the rural South, northern racism, environmental pollution, and degraded work conditions generated by the rise of heavy industry. Written from the standpoint of a critical ...

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Mizora: A Prophecy

Mizora: A Prophecy more books like this

by Mary E. Lane, Jean Pfaelzer (Editor)

This novel, by Mary E. Bradley Lane (1844-1920), is about a Russian named Vera Zarovitch, who is the first woman to reach the North Pole, where she finds a feminist utopia called Mizora.

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Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism

Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism more books like this

by Jean Pfaelzer

"Sophisticated and comprehensive....Along with Pfaelzer's Rebecca Harding Davis Reader, Parlor Radical should restore Davis to her rightful place in literary history. Pfaelzer's superb cultural analysis promises to stimulate a reconceptualization of both 19th-century women's writing and the development of literary realism". Carolyn L. Karcher, ...

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The Utopian Novel in America, Eighteen Eighty-Six to Eighteen Ninety-Six: The Politics of Form more books like this

by Jean Pfaelzer

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A Rebecca Harding Davis Reader: Life in the Iron-Mills", Selected Fiction & Essays

A Rebecca Harding Davis Reader: Life in the Iron-Mills", Selected Fiction & Essays more books like this

by Jean Pfaelzer (Editor), Rebecca Harding Davis

"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

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Rebecca Harding Davis reader : "life in the iron-mills", selected fiction and essays

Rebecca Harding Davis reader : "life in the iron-mills", selected fiction and essays more books like this

by Rebecca Harding Davis, Jean Pfaelzer

This book is about finding hope, about confronting and overcoming cynicism by discovering a spirituality grounded in the things of this world.

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