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Constance Fenimore Woolson's Subversive Politics
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2023
Summary
This seminal study reveals how Constance Fenimore Woolson participated in debates on nineteenth-century political topics considered the province of men. She commented on the most important issues of her time: monetary policy, post-Reconstruction legal decisions, racial justice and interracial marriage, women’s rights, religious hypocrisy, environmental destruction, destabilizing international developments, and the moral character of the nation. The innovative essays in this book introduce her techniques and the political concerns that inspired her complicated art, encouraging scholars to begin the process of rereading and reanalyzing Woolson’s oeuvre to understand the compelling allegories and satires she created. The oppositional, intertextual, and referential techniques she developed allowed her to enter contested political conversations about compelling nineteenth-century problems like few women of her century, sometimes making her work political commentary as much as fiction.
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Edition
1/2023
Copyright Year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-2153-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-2154-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
222
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 26
“The Lady of Little Fishing” (1874) and “Castle Nowhere” (1875) No access Pages 27 - 62
“Mission Endeavor” (1876) No access Pages 63 - 78
“Mrs. Edward Pinckney” (1879) No access Pages 79 - 96
“A Florentine Experiment” (1880) No access Pages 97 - 116
For the Major (1882) No access Pages 117 - 144
