Stephanie C. Palmer

Together by Accident

American Local Color Literature and the Middle Class

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Stephanie C. Palmer reassesses the cultural work of local color literature written during the postbellum and Gilded Age in the United States. To do so, Palmer traces the meaning of the regional travel accident motif through local color texts by Sarah Orne Jewett, Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9780739124949
• ISBN-10: 0739124943
• Artikelnr.: 25467228

Autorenporträt

Stephanie C. Palmer is assistant professor in the department of American culture and literature at Bilkent University in Turkey.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 1. Can the Genteel Writer Write the Local Novel?: Caroline
Kirkland, Eliza Farnham, and Rose Terry Cooke
Chapter 4 2. Travel Delays in the Commercial Countryside: Bret Harte and
Sarah Orne Jewett
Chapter 5 3. Travel Delays and Provincial Ambition: Rebecca Harding Davis
and Thomas Detter
Chapter 6 4. Realist Magic in the Country and the City: William Dean
Howells
Chapter 7 5. Angry Reform from Elsewhere in New England: Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps
Chapter 8 Epilogue
9 Notes
10 Bibliography
11 Index
12 About the Author