Rebecca Harding Davis

Davis, Rebecca Harding - 1831–1910, American novelist, b. Washington, Pa.; mother of Richard Harding Davis. Her early nonfiction pieces, particularly those collected under the title Life in the Iron Mills (1861), and her first novel, Margaret Howth (1862), foreshadowed the naturalistic techniques of later 19th-century writers by showing how a dismal environment can warp character.

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Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism
by Sharon M. Harris. 360 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Notes on the Text

Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis: A Chronology

Introduction

1. "Life in the Iron Mills"

2. After "Life": A Savage Necessity

3. Other Women's Stories

4. Women of Confidence and Confidence-Men

5. Across the Gulf

6. The Decadence of a Race

7. The Coming of the Night

Notes

Index
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The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness (Chap. 2 "Miscegenated Whiteness: Rebecca Harding Davis, the 'Civil-izing War,' and 'Female Racism'")
by Stephen P. Knadler. 249 pgs.

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Stephen P. Knadler is an assistant professor of English at Spelman College.

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Introduction: “fugitive Race” Culture

1: Reverse Acculturation in the Early African American Fiction of William Wells Brown and Harriet Wilson

2: Rebecca Harding Davis, the “civil-Izing War, ” and “female Racism”

3: The Missing Crimes of Neoabolitionist Rape Culture in Pauline Hopkins's Detective Histories

4: Younghill Kang and the Cosmopolitan Resistance to the White Logic of Naturalization

5: The Unrepresented in Abraham Cahan's and Mary Antin's Narratives of Americanization

6: Homosexualization and Racial Masculinity in White Life Novels

7: Arturo Islas's the Rain God

Coda: Anti-Racist Apartheid

Notes

Works Cited

Index
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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature (Chap. Four "Benevolent Maternalism and the Disabled Women in Stowe, Davis, and Phelps")
by Rosemarie Garland Thomson. 200 pgs.

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Inaugurates a new field of disability studies by framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, revising oppressive narratives and revealing liberatory ones. The book examines disabled figures in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, in African-American novels by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde, and in the popular cultural ritual of the freak show.

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Preface & Acknowledgments

Part I: Politicizing Bodily Differences

One: Disability, Identity, and Representation: an Introduction

Two: Theorizing Disability

Part II: Constructing Disabled Figures: Cultural and Literary Sites

Three: The Cultural Work of American Freak Shows, 1835-1940

Four: Benevolent Maternalism and the Disabled Women in Stowe, Davis, and Phelps

Five: Disabled Women as Powerful Women in Petry, Morrison, and Lorde

Conclusion: From Pathology to Identity

Notes

Bibliography

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The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872 ("Northern Borders: Introducing Southworth, Harper, and Davis" begins on p. 37, "Jacobs and Davis: The Web of Racial and Wage Slavery" begins on p. 66, and "Class Is Another War: Fern, Townsend, and Davis" begins on p. 133)
by Lyde Cullen Sizer. 348 pgs.

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This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction, these women, as well as a larger mosaic of lesser-known writers, used their mainstream writings publicly to make sense of war, womanhood, Union, slavery, republicanism, heroism, and death.
Among the authors discussed are Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sara Willis Parton (Fanny Fern), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Although direct political or partisan power was denied to women, these writers actively participated in discussions of national issues through their sentimental novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and letters to the editor.
Sizer pays close attention to how these mostly middle-class women attempted to create a "rhetoric of unity, " giving common purpose to women despite differences in class, race, and politics. This theme of unity was ultimately deployed to establish a white middle-class standard of womanhood, meant to exclude as well as include.

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The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872

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Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: My Sphere Rounds Out Northern Women and the Written War

Chapter One: Rowing Against Wind and Tide How Women Wrote

Chapter Two: Raising a Voice the Civil War Begins in the 1850s

Chapter Three: What Can Woman Do? the Rhetoric of Unity, 1861-1863

Chapter Four: A Woman's Road Crisis at Midwar

Chapter Five: Trying to Find Places the Question of African American Freedom in the Late War

Chapter Six: Woman's Part of Glory Love, Death, and Work in Women's Writing, 1863-1865

Chapter Seven: The Times Which Form History Writing the War, 1865-1868

Chapter Eight: Still Waiting Race and the Politics of Reconstruction

Chapter Nine: A New Emancipation Interpreting the War for Tomorrow

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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A Message to Be Given: The Spiritual Activism of Rebecca Harding Davis, in NWSA Journal
by Michele L. Mock. 24 pgs.

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Slaveries "In the Borders": Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in the Iron Mills" in Its Southern Context, in The Mississippi Quarterly
by Dawn Henwood. 27 pgs.

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The Censored and Uncensored Literary Lives of Life in the Iron-Mills, in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
by Janice Milner Lasseter. 15 pgs.

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Woman, Nature, and the White Plague: Rebecca Harding Davis's "The Yares of the Black Mountains; a True Story," in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
by Michele L. Mock. 17 pgs.

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Separate Spheres No More: Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930 ("Embedded in the City, Embedded in the Text: Rebecca Harding Davis's Private-Public 'I'" begins on p. 99)
by Monika M. Elbert. 310 pgs.

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Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both historically and in the context of classroom teaching.
While some of the essays pair up female and male authors who write in a similar style or with similar concerns, others address social issues shared by both men and women, including class tensions, economic problems, and the Civil War experience. Rather than privileging particular genres or certain well-known writers, the contributors examine writings ranging from novels and poetry to autobiography, utopian fiction, and essays. And they consider familiar figures like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Emily Dickinson, and Ralph Waldo Emerson alongside such lesser-known writers as Melusina Fay Peirce, Susie King Taylor, and Mary Gove Nichols.
Each essay revises the binary notions that have been ascribed to males and females, such as public and private, rational and intuitive, political and domestic, violent and passive. Although they do not deny the existence of separate spheres, the contributors show the boundary between them to be much more blurred than has been assumed until now.

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Preface

Introduction

Notes

Part I: Intertextuality And Authorial Interconnectedness

I: To Be a "Parlor Soldier": Susan Warner's Answer to Emerson's "Self-Reliance"

2: "Astra Castra": Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, And Harriet Prescott Spofford

3: The War of Susie King Taylor

Part II: Body Politics: Framing the Female Body

5: The Ungendered Terrain of Good Health: Mary Gove Nichols's Rewriting of The Diseased Institution of Marriage

6: Male Doctors and Female Illness In American Women's Fiction, 1850-1900

Notes

7: Gender Bending: Two Role-Reversal Utopias by Nineteenth-Century Women

Part III: On the Home Front and Beyond: Domesticity and the Marketplace

8: A Homely Business: Melusina Fay Peirce And Late-Nineteenth-Century Cooperative Housekeeping

9: Narratives of Domestic Imperialism: The African-American Home In The Colored American Magazine And The Novels of Pauline Hopkins, 1900-1903

10: Public Women, Private Acts: Gender and Theater in Turn-Of-The- Century American Novels

Part IV: Sentimental Subversions

II: Gender Valences of Transcendentalism: The Pursuit of Idealism in Elizabeth Oakes-Smith's "The Sinless Child"

12: Sentimental Epistemologies in Uncle Tom's Cabin and the House of the Seven Gables

13: "I Try to Make the Reader Feel": The Resurrection of Bess Streeter Aldrich's a Lantern in Her Hand And The Politics of the Literary Canon

Contributors

Index
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Hawthorne and Women: Engendering and Expanding the Hawthorne Tradition ("Hawthorne's Legacy to Rebecca Harding Davis" begins on p. 168)
by John L. Idol Jr., Melinda M. Ponder. 324 pgs.

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A collection of essays offering a complex yet positive view of Hawthorne's attitudes toward women, this text examines the influence exerted by the women in Hawthorne's immediate family, and explores his links to a range of women writers.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Again and Again, The Scribbling Women

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: A Tireless Hawthorne Booster

The Chief Employ of Her Life: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's Contribution to Her Husband's Career

Memories of Hawthorne: Rose Hawthorne Lathrop's Auto/Biography

Margaret Fuller on Hawthorne: Formative Views by a Woman of the Nineteenth Century

Rappaccini's Garden And Emerson's Concord: Translating the Voice of Margaret Fuller

Stowe and Hawthorne

Discord in Concord: National Politics and Literary Neighbors

Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard's "Immortal Feather"

Annie Fields's Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mary Russell Mitford: Hawthorne as the Best Living Writer Of Prose Fiction

Virgin Saint, Mother Saint: Hilda and Dorothea

Partly Sympathy and Partly Rebellion: Mary Ward, the Scarlet Letter, and Hawthorne

Hawthorne's Legacy to Rebecca Harding Davis

Hawthorne, Jewett, and the Meditative Sublime

The Unfortunate Fall: Women and Genteel Poverty In the Fiction of Hawthorne and Freeman

Katharine Lee Bates: Hawthorne Student, Teacher, Critic, and Respondent

Cather and Hawthorne: Kindred Spirits

Demons of Wickedness, Angels of Delight: Hawthorne, Woolf, and the Child

Emily Dickinson's Pearls

Such a Hopeless Task Before Her: Some Observations on the Fiction of Hawthorne and Gilman

Bourgeois Sexuality and the Gothic Plot in Wharton and Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter as Pre-Text for Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People"

Toward a Reader's History "Ghosts Might Enter Here"

Appendix

Selective Bibliography

Contributors

Index
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The Environmental Debate: A Documentary History (Document 41 "Rebecca Harding Davis on Smoke and Soot in a Mill Town")
by Peninah Neimark, Peter Rhoades Mott. 323 pgs.

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This unique collection of primary documents examines the evolution of concern about environmental degradation, pollution, and resource conservation in America from the colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. These documents, ranging from government reports and court cases to the writings of naturalists, economists, and novelists, offer a broad array of perspectives about such major environmental issues as population growth, air pollution, land and water use, toxins and waste disposal, and the use of timber and mining resources. The historical introductions to each part and to each document provide a context for analyzing each document and will aid readers of the book to better understand the various debates over how, why and if our environment needs to be protected. Students and other interested in environmental problems are encouraged to consider all sides of these complex issues before drawing their own conclusions.

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Advisory Board

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Series Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Significant Dates in American Environmental History

Introduction

Part I Foundations of American Environmental Thought and Action

Document 1: Biblical Views of Nature and Humanity

Document 2: Virgil's Pastoral View of Nature (c. 50 B.C.E.)

Document 3: Christopher Columbus Inventories the New World's Natural Resources (1493)

Document 4: Jean Ribaut Discovers the Natural Abundance of Terra Florida (1563)

Document 5: Baltasar de Obregon's Account of the Riches of New Mexico (1584)

Document 7: William Bradford on Life in the Wilderness (1620, 1621)

Document 8: Francis Bacon on Science and Technology (1629)

Document 9: Regulating the Herring Run in the Town of Plymouth (1637, 1638, 1639, 1662)

Document 10: Predator Control and Game Hunting Regulation in Rhode Island Colony (1639, 1646)

Document 11: Thomas Hobbes's Social Contract Theory (1651)

Document 13: William Penn Contracts to Set Aside Timbered Lands (1681)

Document 14: John Locke on Property and Labor (1690)

Document 15: John Ray on Gardens and Wilderness (1691)

Document 16: Jonathan Edwards on God and Nature (1739)

Document 17: Peter Kalm on Land Management (1753)

Document 18: William Blackstone's On the Rights of Things (1765-1769)

Document 19: John Bartram on Reclaiming Florida's Wetlands (1767)

Part II Politicians, Naturalists, and Artists in the New Nation, 1776-1840

Document 20: Thomas Jefferson on Agrarianism and Industrialization (1785, 1816)

Document 21: James Madison on Population and Property (1786, 1788)

Document 22: Philip Freneau's Noble Savage (1788)

Document 23: William Bartram on the Human Impact on the Environment (1791)

Document 24: Benjamin Rush on Saving the Sugar Maple (1791)

Document 25: The Founding Fathers on the Care of the Land (1793, 1818)

Document 26: Thomas Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)

Document 27: Meriwether Lewis on the Slaughter of Buffaloes (1805)

Document 28: Act Establishing the First Federal Forest Reserve (1817)

Document 30: James Fenimore Cooper Laments the Disappearance of Unregulated Wilderness (1823)

Document 31: George Catlin's Proposal for a National Park (1832)

Document 32: Black Hawk on the Indians and the Land (1833)

Document 33: John James Audubon on the Senseless Destruction of Fish, Birds, and Quadrupeds (1833)

Part III The Origins of Environmental Activism, 1840-1890

Document 34: Thomas Cole's "Lament of the Forest" (1841)

Document 35: John James Audubon on the Decimation of the Bison Herds (1843)

Document 36: Ralph Waldo Emerson on Nature (1844, 1884)

Document 37: William Cullen Bryant's Proposal for a Great Municipal Park (1844)

Document 38: Andrew Jackson Downing Talks about Public Parks and Gardens (1848)

Document 39: Swamp and Overflow Act (1850)

Document 40: The Shattuck Report's Recommendations for Sanitary Improvement (1850)

Document 41: Rebecca Harding Davis on Smoke and Soot in a Mill Town (1861)

Document 41: Rebecca Harding Davis on Smoke and Soot In a Mill Town (1861)

Document 43: George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature (1864)

Document 44: Henry David Thoreau on the Value of Living Things (1864)

Document 45: Act Granting Yo-Semite Valley to California (1864)

Document 46: the Citizens' Association of New York On Sewage and Disease (1865)

Document 47: John Muir on the Spirituality of Nature (1866)

Document 48: Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux on Creating Parks to Serve the Public (1866, 1872)

Document 49: Charles Darwin on the Similarity between Humans and Other Animals (1871)

Document 50: Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park (1872)

Document 51: Mining Act (1872)

Document 52: Carl Schurz on the Need for Federal Forest Conservation (1877)

Document 53: Henry George on Land Development (1879)

Document 54: Act Establishing the Adirondack Forest Preserve (1885)

Document 55: American Ornithologists' Union's Model Law (1886)

Document 56: George Bird Grinnell and Cecelia Thaxter on the Audubon Society Cause (1886)

Document 57: Constitution of the Boone and Crockett Club (1887)

Document 58: John Wesley Powell on the Lands of the Arid Region (1890)

Document 55: American Ornithologists' Union's Model Law (1886)

Document 59: Forest Reserve Act (1891)

Document 60: Frederick J. Turner on the Disappearance of the Frontier (1894)

Document 61: Rivers and Harbors Act (1899)

Document 62: Theodore Roosevelt on Forest Conservation and Land Reclamation (1901)

Document 63: Reclamation Act (1902)

Document 64: Upton Sinclair on the Adulteration of Processed Food (1906)

Document 65: Ellen Swallow Richards on Sanitation and Human Ecology (1907)

Document 66: Theodore Roosevelt on the Conservation and Use of Natural Resources (1907)

Document 67: Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., on the Smoke Nuisance (1908)

Document 69: Richard Ballinger on the Development of the West (1909)

Document 70: Report of the National Conservation Commission (1909)

Document 71: WJ McGee on Conservation (1909)

Document 72: Jane Addams on Garbage (1910)

Document 73: Gifford Pinchot on Conservation and the National Interest (1911)

Part V Rethinking Our Relationship to Nature, 1920-1960

Document 74: Pennsylvania Coal Company V. Mahon Et Al. (1922)

Document 75: Village of Euclid Et Al. V. Ambler Realty Company (1926)

Document 76: Henry Beston on the Human Relationship with Nature (1928)

Document 77: Franklin D. Roosevelt on the Conservation of America's Forests (1930)

Document 78: Stuart Chase on Waste in the Machine Age (1931)

Document 79: Arthur Kallet and F. J. Schlink on the Dangers of Manufactured Products (1932)

Document 80: Luther Standing Bear on Native Americans and the Rights of Other Living Things (1933)

Document 81: Arthur Tansley on the Concept of the Ecosystem (1935)

Document 82: H. V. Harlan and M. L. Martini on the Loss of Genetic Diversity (1936)

Document 83: Lewis Mumford on Regional Planning (1938)

Document 84: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

Document 85: Marjory Stoneman Douglas on the Everglades (1947)

Document 86: Roger Tory Peterson on Bird Population (1948)

Document 87: Fairfield Osborn on the Relatedness of All Living Things (1948)

Document 88: Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic (1949)

Document 89: President's Materials Policy Commission on Economic Growth and Resource Policy (1952)

Document 90: Samuel H. Ordway, Jr., on Limits to Growth (1953)

Document 91: J. Robert Oppenheimer on the Use of Science (1953)

Document 93: Clean Air Act (1955)

Document 94: John Kenneth Galbraith Asks, "How Much Should a Country Consume?" (1958)

Document 95: David Brower Demands Support for the Wilderness Act (1959)

Part VI The Heyday of the Environmental Movement, 1960-1980

Document 96: The Surgeon General's Report on Environmental Health (1960)

Document 97: Lorus J. Milne and Margery Milne on the Balance of Nature (1960)

Document 98: Murray Bookchin on the Synthetic Environment (1962)

Document 99: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962)

Document 100: Stewart L. Udall on the Land Ethic (1963)

Document 101: John F. Kennedy on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963)

Document 102: Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference V. Federal Power Commission (1965)

Document 103: California Land Conservation Act (1965) and Article XXVIII of the California Constitution (1966)

Document 104: Kenneth E. Boulding on the Spaceship Economy (1966)

Document 105: Lynn White, Jr., on Western Religions and the Environmental Crisis (1966)

Document 106: Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb (1968)

Document 107: Garrett Hardin on Controlling Access to the Commons (1968)

Document 108: John Teal and Mildred Teal on the Productivity of the Salt Marsh (1969)

Document 109: Ian Mcharg on the Fitness of Ecosystems (1969)

Document 110: National Environmental Policy Act (1969)

Document 111: Richard Nixon on the Need For Environmental Regulation (1970)

Document 112: Clean Air Act Amendments (1970)

Document 113: Dennis Puleston on the Founding of the Environmental Defense Fund (1971)

Document 114: Barry Commoner on Nature, Man, and Technology (1971)

Document 115: Clean Water Act (1972)

Document 116: Christopher Stone Proposes Legal Rights for Natural Objects (1972)

Document 117: Sierra Club v. Morton (1972)

Document 118: Stockholm Declaration on the Human Environment (1972)

Document 119: Endangered Species Act (1973)

Document 120: Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia (1975)

Document 121: Edward Abbey's the Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)

Document 122: Greenpeace on the Need for Radical Action (1976)

Part VII Confronting Economic and Social Realities, 1980-2000

Document 123: Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (1980)

Document 124: Mark Sagoff on the Public Interest (1981)

Document 125: Lester R. Brown on Building a Sustainable Society (1981)

Document 126: Julian L. Simon on Population Growth (1981)

Document 127: Coastal Barrier Resources Act (1981)

Document 128: Arne Naess on Deep Ecology (1982, 1984)

Document 129: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1983)

Document 130: Bernard Cohen on Nuclear Energy and Risk Assessment (1983)

Document 131: Bob Graham on Restoring the Kissimmee River--Lake Okeechobee--Everglades Ecosystem (1983)

Document 132: Edward O. Wilson on the Need for Conservation and a Conservation Ethic (1984, 1998)

Document 134: United Nations Convention (1985) and Protocol (1987) on Ozone Depletion

Document 135: United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice on Toxic Waste and Race (1987)

Document 136: Dixy Lee Ray Asks, "Who Speaks for Science?" (1990)

Document 137: Roger Smith on Industry and the Environment (1990)

Document 138: California Air Resources Board Lowers Its Vehicle Emissions Standards (1990, 1996)

Document 139: John P. Holdren on Energy and Human Well-Being (1990)

Document 140: Barry Lopez on a Sense of Place (1990)

Document 141: Albert Gore on the Ecological Perspective (1992)

Document 142: United Nations Convention (1992) and Protocol (1997) on Climate Change

Document 143: Carl Safina on the Decline of Fishes (1995)

Document 144: Edward Tenner on Shifting Liability (1996)

Document 145: Jane Lubchenco on Environmental Issues for the Twenty-First Century (1997)

Document 146: Jeremy Rifkin on Biotechnology and the Environment (1998)

Appendix I: Landmarks in U.S. Environmental Legislation

Appendix II: Major International Agreements Relating to the Environment

Notes

Glossary

Further Readings

Index

About the Editors

Primary Documents in American History and Contemporary Issues
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"A Desolate, Shabby Home": Rebecca Harding Davis, Margret Howth, and Domestic Ideology, in ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
by Jeffrey W. Miller. 19 pgs.

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Representing and Self-Mutilating the Laboring Male Body: Re-Examining Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, in ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
by Caroline S. Miles. 15 pgs.

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American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary ("Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)" begins on p. 93)
by E. C. Applegate. 426 pgs.

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This reference includes alphabetically arranged biographical and critical entries for more than 120 American Realistic and Naturalistic novelists, including Henry Adams, Sherwood Anderson, Saul Bellow, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and Jack London. Each entry includes basic biographical information and a narrative overview of the writer's educational background, professional career, and published works. These works are briefly discussed to show how they fit within the Realistic and Naturalistic traditions.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Notes

Henry Brooks Adams

References

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Nelson Algren

James Lane Allen

Sherwood Anderson

Harriette Simpson Arnow

William Attaway

Louis Auchincloss

Mary Austin

Edward Bellamy

Saul Bellow

Ambrose Bierce

References

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (zitkala-Sa)

Thomas Boyd

Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

Alice Brown

References

Frances Hodgson Burnett

George Washington Cable

Abraham Cahan

Erskine Caldwell

Willa Cather

Charles Waddell Chesnutt

Kate Chopin

Winston Churchill

Samuel L. Clemens

Jack Conroy

Rose Terry Cooke

James Gould Cozzens

Stephen Crane

F. Marion Crawford

Edward Dahlberg

Rebecca Harding Davis

Richard Harding Davis

John William de Forest

Floyd Dell

Ignatius Donnelly

John Dos Passos

Theodore Dreiser

W.E.B. Dubois

Paul Laurence Dunbar

Edith Maud Eaton (sui Sin Far)

Edward Eggleston

Ralph Ellison

James T. Farrell

William Faulkner

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Paul Leicester Ford

Harold Frederic

Mary Wilkins Freeman

Alice French (octave Thanet)

Isaac K. Friedman

Henry B. Fuller

Zona Gale

Hamlin Garland

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Ellen Glasgow

Michael Gold

Caroline Gordon

Robert Grant

Henry Harland (sidney Luska)

Joel Chandler Harris

Bret Harte

References

John Hay

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Lafcadio Hearn

Larry Heinemann

Ernest Hemingway

Robert Herrick

J. G. Holland

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

E. W. Howe

William Dean Howells

Henry James

Sarah Orne Jewett

References

James Jones

Henry F. Keenan

William Kennedy

Clarence King

Edward Smith King

Grace King

Caroline Kirkland

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Joseph Kirkland

Meyer Levin

Alfred Henry Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

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Jack London

Norman Mailer

John P. Marquand

Carson Mccullers

Maria Cristina Mena (maria Cristina Chambers)

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Samuel Merwin

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S. Weir Mitchell

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Toni Morrison

Willard Motley

Mary N. Murfree

Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson

(Benjamin) Frank(lin) Norris

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Joyce Carol Oates

John O’hara

John Milton Oskison

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Thomas Nelson Page

Will Payne

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (ward)

David Graham Phillips

Ernest Poole

William Sydney Porter (o. Henry)

Opie Read

Frederic Remington

Amelie Rives

Hubert Selby, Jr

Upton Sinclair

Francis Hopkinson Smith

John Steinbeck

Harriet Beecher Stowe

T. S. Stribling

William Styron

Booth Tarkington

Albion W. Tourgee

Susan Warner

Robert Penn Warren

Henry Kitchell Webster

References

Edith Wharton

Brand Whitlock

References

Constance Fenimore Woolson

Richard Wright

Anzia Yezierska

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)" begins on p. 88)
by Denise D. Knight, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 540 pgs.

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As the American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, the influence of women writers of the nineteenth century has been reevaluated. The first book of its kind, this reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 nineteenth-century American women writers, such as Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Emma Lazarus, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the critical studies examining the writer's works, and a bibliography of works for further consultation.

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Preface

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

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Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1815-1891)

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Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente) (1794-1845)

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Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)

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Alice Cary (1820-1871)

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Phoebe Cary (1824-1871)

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Caroline Chesebro' (Caroline Chesebrough) (1825-1873)

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Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)

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Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

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Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (Dame Shirley) (1819-1906)

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Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)

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Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841-1928)

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Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964)

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Maria Susanna Cummins (1827-1866)

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Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

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Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar- Nelson (1875-1935)

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Emma Embury (1806-1863)

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Fanny Fern (sara Payson Willis Parton) (1811-1872)

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Kate Field (1838-1896)

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Martha Finley (Martha Farquharson) (1828-1909)

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

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Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

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Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935)

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Sarah Pratt Mclean Greene (1856-1935)

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Angelina GrimkÉ: (1805-1879)

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Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879)

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Gail Hamilton (Mary Abigail Dodge) (1833-1896)

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Fances E. W. Harper (1825-1911)

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Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz (1800-1856)

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Marietta Holley (Josiah Allen's Wife) (1836-1926)

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Mary Jane Hawes Holmes (1825-1907)

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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)

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Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844-1891)

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Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)

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Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)

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Harriet A. Jacobs (Linda Brent) (C. 1813-1897)

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Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

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Grace Elizabeth King (1852-1932)

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Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864)

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Lucy Larcom (1824-1893)

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Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Mother Mary Alphonsa) (1851-1926)

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Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)

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Maria Jane Mcintosh (1803-1878)

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Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868)

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Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt (Ritchie): (1819-1870)

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Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock): (1850-1922)

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Elizabeth Oakes Smith: (1806-1893)

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Frances Sargent Locke Osgood: (1811-1850)

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Henrietta Cordelia Ray (1849?-1916)

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Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)

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Atharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)

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Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)

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E. D. E. N. Southworth (Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth) (1819-1899)

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Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)

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Ann Sophia Stephens (1810-1886)

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Maria Stewart (1803-1879)

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Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard: (1823-1902)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

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Ruth Mcenery Stuart (1849-1917)

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Octave Thanet (Alice French) (1850-1934)

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Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894)

Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (1831-1885)

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844-1911)

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Susan Warner (1819-1885)

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Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher (1814-1852)

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Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878)

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A. D. T. Whitney (Adeline Dutton Train Whitney) (1824-1906)

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Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835-1909)

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Harriet E. Wilson (1827?-1863?)

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Sally S. Wood (1759-1855)

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Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)

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The Gay Nineties in America: A Cultural Dictionary of the 1890s ("Davis, Rebecca Harding (1831-1910)" begins on p. 92)
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Whether for browsing or research, readers will reap rewards from this entertaining and enlightening compendium of the persons, events, institutions, and ideas of the era. Gale focuses on writers and their works, but also represented in the 500 entries are painters and politicians, social workers and industrialists, composers and inventors, explorers and evangelists; topics like crime, immigration, medicine, motion pictures, sports, and universities; and landmark events like the Panic of 1893, the Spanish-American War, and the World's Columbian Exposition. Fully cross-referenced and indexed, the dictionary also includes a chronology and a bibliography.

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Preface

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CHRONOLOGY

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CLASSIFIED APPENDIX: BIOGRAPHICAL ENTRIES IN KEY OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL CATEGORIES

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