A Law Unto Herself: Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers
Autor Rebecca Harding Davis Editat de Alicia Mischa Renfroeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2014
A scathing critique of the legal status of women and their property rights in nineteenth-century America, Rebecca Harding Davis’s 1878 novel A Law Unto Herself chronicles the experiences of Jane Swendon, a seemingly naïve and conventional nineteenth-century protagonist struggling to care for her elderly father with limited financial resources. In order to continue care, Jane seeks to secure her rightful inheritance despite the efforts of her cousin and later her husband, a greedy man who has tricked her father into securing her hand in marriage.
Appealing to middle-class literary tastes of the age, A Law Unto Herself elucidated for a broad general audience the need for legal reforms regarding divorce, mental illness, inheritance, and reforms to the Married Women’s Property Laws. Through three fascinating female characters, the novel also invites readers to consider evolving gender roles during a time of cultural change.
Appealing to middle-class literary tastes of the age, A Law Unto Herself elucidated for a broad general audience the need for legal reforms regarding divorce, mental illness, inheritance, and reforms to the Married Women’s Property Laws. Through three fascinating female characters, the novel also invites readers to consider evolving gender roles during a time of cultural change.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780803238145
ISBN-10: 0803238142
Pagini: 234
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0803238142
Pagini: 234
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831–1910) built a career spanning nearly half a century from her apprenticeship newspaper work for the Wheeling (WV) Intelligencer in the 1850s to her last published short story at the time of her death. She is best known for the publication of her novella Life in the Iron-Mills (1861) in the Atlantic Monthly.
Alicia Mischa Renfroe is an associate professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University.
Alicia Mischa Renfroe is an associate professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Editor's Introduction
A Note on the Text
A Law Unto Herself
Notes
Editor's Introduction
A Note on the Text
A Law Unto Herself
Notes
Recenzii
"Renfroe introduces readers to one of Davis's lesser-known texts, inviting new directions in Davis scholarship, and by reading the text through a legal lens, she adds a new dimension to our understanding of Davis's work and the breadth of her knowledge regarding the legal issues of her day."—Robin L. Cadwallader, Resources for American Literary Study