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

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Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism - Pfaelzer, Jean
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This study considers Davis as a literary activist, showing how she fashioned contemporary narrative forms to kindle the emotive route to reform. It links America's first social realist to political expressions of grief, rage, and loss that shaped exhortations in abolitionist stories and poetry.

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Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism 1996, University of Pittsburgh Press

ISBN-13: 9780822939504

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Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism 1996, University of Pittsburgh Press, PIttsburgh

ISBN-13: 9780822956549

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