Constance Fenimore Woolson's subversive politics / Victoria Brehm.

Author/creator Brehm, Victoria, 1947- author.
Format Book
PublicationLanham : Lexington Books, [2023]
Description230 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Brehm, Victoria. Constance Fenimore Woolson's subversive politics Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023] 9781666921540
LCCN 2023010078
ISBN9781666921533
ISBN166692153X
ISBN(ebook)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner Order on Demand Title Order On Demand ✔ Available Click to order this title