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Together by Accident
American Local Color Literature and the Middle Class
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2008
Summary
This fascinating account of the regional travel accident motif within American local color literature offers a reassessment of the cultural work done by authors writing during the Gilded Age. Stephanie C. Palmer shows how events like broken carriage wheels and missed trains were used by local color authors to bring together bourgeois and lower-class characters, thus giving readers the opportunity to see modernity coming into contact with both rural and urban life. Using the works of Sarah Orne Jewett, Bret Harte, William Dean Howells, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and others, Palmer traces the use of the regional travel accident motif and how local color writers employed it to give critiques on class, society, and modern life. Exploring the themes of regional identity, modernity, and interpersonal relationships, Together by Accident offers an intriguing evaluation of the innovations and inconveniences associated with life during the industrializing Gilded Age in America.
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Copyright year
2008
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2494-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3212-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
226
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 30
Chapter 01. Can the Genteel Writer Write the Local Novel?: Caroline Kirkland, Eliza Farnham, and Rose Terry Cooke No access Pages 31 - 52
Chapter 02. Travel Delays in the Commercial Countryside: Bret Harte and Sarah Orne Jewett No access Pages 53 - 76
Chapter 03. Travel Delays and Provincial Ambition: Rebecca Harding Davis and Thomas Detter No access Pages 77 - 98
Chapter 04. Realist Magic in the Country and the City: William Dean Howells No access Pages 99 - 118
Chapter 05. Angry Reform from Elsewhere in New England: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps No access Pages 119 - 146
