Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism

by Sharon M. Harris

From the late 1860s until her death in 1910, Rebecca Harding Davis was one of the best-known writers in America. She broke into print as a young woman in the 1860s with Life in the Iron Mills, which established her as one of the pioneers of American realism. She developed a literary theory of the commonplace nearly two decades before William Dean Howels shaped his own version of the concept. Yet, in spite of her importance to the literary and popular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812213351
• ISBN13: 9780812213355
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 8.9"