Constance Fenimore Woolson's subversive politics / Victoria Brehm.
| Author/creator | Brehm, Victoria, 1947- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023] |
| Description | 230 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | "The lady of little fishing" (1874) and "Castle nowhere" (1875): the politics of race and money -- "Mission endeavor" (1876): Jerusalem on Lake Superior -- "Mrs. Edward Pinckney" (1879): interracial marriage in the post-bellum South -- "A Florentine experiment" (1880): J. P. Morgan and the responsibilities of wealth -- 'For the major' (1882): lies, secrets, silence -- 'Horace Chase' (1893): Gilded Age Sense and Sensibility -- "A waitress" (1894): American complacency at the fin de si ecle. |
| Abstract | "A pioneering introduction to the oppositional, referential techniques Woolson developed to enter contested nineteenth-century political conversations about monetary policy, post-Reconstruction legal decisions, racial justice, women's rights, religious hypocrisy, environmental destruction, and destabilizing political developments"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Brehm, Victoria. Constance Fenimore Woolson's subversive politics Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023] 9781666921540 |
| LCCN | 2023010078 |
| ISBN | 9781666921533 |
| ISBN | 166692153X |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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