Constance Fenimore Woolson's subversive politics /

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 de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brehm, Victoria, 1947- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2023].
Subjects:	Woolson, Constance Fenimore, > 1840-1894 > Political and social views. Woolson, Constance Fenimore, > 1840-1894 > Criticism and interpretation. Politics in literature.

Table of 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 siècle.