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Rebecca Harding Davis: Selected Secondary Bibliography

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Allego, Donna M. "Genevieve Taggard's Sentimental Marxism in Calling Western Union." College Literature 31 1 (2004): 27-51. Print.

Silver, Andrew. "'Unnatural Unions': Picturesque Travel, Sexual Politics, and Working-Class Representation in 'a Night under Ground' and 'Life in the Iron-Mills'." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 20 1-2 (2003): 94-117. Print.

Novak, Terry. "Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)." Writers of the American Renaissance: An a-to-Z Guide. Ed. Knight, Denise D. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003. xiii, 458 pp. Print.

Miller, Jeffrey W. "'a Desolate, Shabby Home': Rebecca Harding Davis, Margret Howth, and Domestic Ideology." American Transcendental Quarterly 17 4 (2003): 259-79. Print.

Block, Shelley R. Nineteenth-Century Literary Women and the Temperance Tradition: Temperance Rhetoric in the Fiction of Lydia Sigourney, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. 2009. Print.

Boudreau, Kristin. "'The Woman's Flesh of Me': Rebecca Harding Davis's Response to Self-Reliance." American Transcendental Quarterly 6.2 (1992): 132-40.

Buckley, J. F. "Living in the Iron Mills: A Tempering of Nineteenth-Century America's Orphic Poet." Journal of American Culture 16.1 (1993): 67-72.

Cadwallader, Robin L. 'for Love's Sake': Literature as an Appeal for Kindness or the Benevolent Work of Three Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers. 2004. Print.

Curnutt, Kirk. "Direct Addresses, Narrative Authority, and Gender in Rebecca Harding Davis's 'Life in the Iron Mills'." Style 28.2 (1994): 146-68.

Dauber, Kenneth. "Realistically Speaking: Authorship in the Late Nineteenth Century and Beyond." American Literary History 11.2 (1999): 378-90.

Davis, Rebecca Harding, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project), and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Bits of Gossip. Electronic ed. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Academic Affairs Library University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997.

Davis, Rebecca Harding, Janice Milner Lasseter, and Sharon M. Harris. Rebecca Harding Davis : Writing Cultural Autobiography. 1st ed. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2001.

De Santis, Christopher C. "Southern Reconstruction and the Rhetoric of Englightened Paternalism in Rebecca Harding Davis's Waiting for the Verdict." CLA Journal 41.3 (1998): 249-68.

Diamond, Nina. "1861 Revolution in the Atlantic: A Contextual Analysis of 'Life in the Iron Mills'." Wittenberg Review 1.1 (1990): 19-29.

Dingledine, Don. "Romances of Reconstruction: The Postwar Marriage Plot in Rebecca Harding Davis and John William De Forest." Back to Peace: Reconciliation and Retribution in the Postwar Period. Eds. Usandizaga, Aranzazu and Andrew Monnickendam. Notre Dame, IN: U of Notre Dame P, 2007. vii, 312 pp. Print.

Doriani, Beth Maclay. "New England Calvinism and the Problem of the Poor in Rebecca Harding Davis's 'Life in the Iron Mills'." Literary Calvinism and Nineteenth-Century American Women Authors. Ed. Michael Schuldiner. Studies in Puritan American Spirituality. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1997. 179-224.

Dow, William. Narrating Class in American Fiction. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Print.

Dow, William. "Performative Passages: Davis's Life in the Iron Mills, Crane's Maggie, and Norris's Mcteague." Twisted from the Ordinary: American Literary Naturalism. Ed. Papke, Mary E. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2003. xv, 416 pp. Print.

Dowling, David. Capital Letters: Authorship in the Antebellum Literary Market. Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P, 2009. Print.

Eppard, Philip B. "Rebecca Harding Davis: A Misattribution." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 69 (1975): 265-67.

Floyd, Janet. "'Magnificent Equipment': Body, Sound and Space in the Representation of the Female Singer." Dqr: Studies in Literature (Dqr: Studies in Literature). Eds. Floyd, Janet, et al. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2010. xi, 370 pp. Print.

Goodling, Sara Britton. "The Silent Partnership: Naturalism and Sentimentalism in the Novels of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps." Twisted from the Ordinary: American Literary Naturalism. Ed. Papke, Mary E. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2003. xv, 416 pp. Print.

Goodman, Charlotte. "Portraits of the Artiste Manque by Three Women Novelists." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 5.3 (1980): 57-59.

Harris, Sharon M. "Rebecca Harding Davis: A Continuing Misattribution." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 5.1 (1988): 33-34.

Harris, Sharon M. "Rebecca Harding Davis' Kitty's Choice and the Disabled Woman Physician." American Literary Realism 44 1 (2011): 23-45. Print.

---. "Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910): A Bibliography of Secondary Criticism, 1958-1986." Bulletin of Bibliography 45.4 (1988): 233-46.

---. "Rebecca Harding Davis: From Romanticism to Realism." American Literary Realism 21.2 (1989): 4-20.

---. Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1991.

Harris, Sharon M. "Redefining the Feminine: Women and Work in Rebecca Harding Davis's 'in the Market'." Legacy 8.2 (1992): 118-32.

Harris, Sharon M. "Rebecca Harding Davis' Kitty's Choice and the Disabled Woman Physician." American Literary Realism 44 1 (2011): 23-45. Print.

Henwood, Dawn. "Slaveries 'in the Borders': Rebecca Harding Davis's 'Life in the Iron Mills' in Its Southern Context." Mississippi Quarterly52.4 (1999): 567-92.

Hesford, Walter. "Literary Contexts of 'Life in the Iron-Mills'." American Literature 49 (1977): 70-85.

Hood, Richard A. "Framing a 'Life in the Iron Mills'." Studies in American Fiction 23.1 (1995): 73-84.

Hughes, Sheila Hassell. "Between Bodies of Knowledge There Is a Great Gulf Fixed: A Liberationist Reading of Class and Gender in Life in the Iron Mills." American Quarterly 49.1 (1997): 113-37.

Knadler, Stephen. "'Miscegenated Whiteness': Rebecca Harding Davis, the 'Civil-Izing' War, and Female Racism." Nineteenth-Century Literature 57 1 (2002): 64-99. Print.

Krentz, Christopher. "A 'Vacant Receptacle'? Blind Tom, Cognitive Difference, and Pedagogy." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 120 2 (2005): 552-57. Print.

Lasseter, Janice Milner. "Rebecca Harding Davis." Dictionary of Literary Biography (Dlb). Eds. Hudock, Amy E. and Katharine Rodier. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2001. xix, 439 pp. Print.

Lasseter, Janice Milner. "The Censored and Uncensored Literary Lives of Life in the Iron Mills." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 20 1-2 (2003): 175-90. Print.

Luna, Rosa Munoz. "Pioneering Feminism: Deborah's Role in 'Life in the Iron-Mills'." Grove: Working Papers on English Studies 10 (2003): 101-10. Print.

Miles, Caroline S. "Representing and Self-Multilating the Laboring Male Body: Re-Examining Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills." American Transcendental Quarterly 18 2 (2004): 90-104. Print.

Palmer, Stephanie C. Together by Accident: American Local Color Literature and the Middle Class. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2008. Print.

Pfaelzer, Jean, ed. and introd. "'Marcia' by Rebecca Harding Davis." Legacy 4.1 (1987): 3-10.

Pfaelzer, Jean. "Domesticity and the Discourse of Slavery: 'John Lamar' and 'Blind Tom' by Rebecca Harding Davis." ESQ 38 (1992): 31-56.

--, ed. A Rebecca Harding Davis Reader. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1995.

Davis, Rebecca Harding. Life in the Iron-Mills. Ed. Cecelia Tichi. Bedford Cultural Editions. Boston, MA: Bedford, 1998.

Krentz, Christopher. "A 'Vacant Receptacle'? Blind Tom, Cognitive Difference, and Pedagogy." PMLA 120.2 (2005): 552-57.

Lang, Amy Schrager. "Class and the Strategies of Sympathy." The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America. Ed. Shirley Samuels. New York: Oxford UP, 1992. 128-42. \

Langford, Gerald. The Richard Harding Davis Years; a Biography of a Mother and Son. 1st ed. New York,: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1961.

Lasseter, Janice Milner. "'Boston in the Sixties': Rebecca Harding Davis's View of Boston and Concord During the Civil War." The Concord Saunterer 3 (1995): 64-86.

---. "Hawthorne's Stories and Rebecca Harding Davis: A Note." Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 25.1 (1999): 31-34.

---. "Hawthorne's Legacy to Rebecca Harding Davis." Hawthorne and Women: Engendering and Expanding the Hawthorne Tradition. Ed. John L. Idol, Jr. --Ponder, Melinda M. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 1999. 168-78.

Long, Lisa A. "Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)." Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Denise D. Knight(ed. and preface)--Nelson , Emmanuel S. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. 88-98.

---. "Imprisoned in/at Home: Criminal Culture in Rebecca Harding Davis' Margret Howth: A Story of to-Day." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 54.2 (1998): 65-98.

---.. "The Postbellum Reform Writings of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps." Cambridge Companions to Literature (Cctl). Eds. Bauer, Dale M. and Philip Gould. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2001. xxix, 336 pp. Print.

Miller, Jeffrey W. "'a Desolate, Shabby Home': Rebecca Harding Davis, Margret Howth, and Domestic Ideology." American Transcendental Quarterly 17 4 (2003): 259-79. Print.

Mock, Michele L. "'An Ardor That Was Human, and a Power That Was Art': Rebecca Harding Davis and the Art of the Periodical." 'the Only Efficient Instrument': American Women Writers and the Periodical, 1837-1916. Ed. Aleta Feinsod --Alves Cane, Susan. Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P, 2001. 126-46.

Mock, Michele L. "Woman, Nature, and the White Plague: Rebecca Harding Davis's 'the Yares of the Black Mountains: A True Story'." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 19 2 (2002): 152-69. Print.

Morrison, Lucy. "The Search for the Artist in Man and Fulfillment in Life-Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron Mills." Studies in Short Fiction 33.2 (1996): 245-53.

Nocera, Gigliola. "Il Paesaggio Sconvolto: L'eterna Notte Di Life in the Iron Mills Di Rebecca Harding Davies." RSA: Rivista di Studi Anglo-Americani 5.7 (1989): 77-85.

Navarre, Evelyn. In Labor Her Best Teacher: Nineteenth-Century Women's Work as a Transcendentalist Bildungsroman. 2010. Print.

Noe, Kenneth W. "'Deadened Color and Colder Horror': Rebecca Harding Davis and the Myth of Unionist Appalachia." Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes: Back Talk from an American Religion. Ed. Dwight B. --Norman Billings, Gurney --Ledford, Katherine --Eller, Ronald D. (foreword). Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 1998. 67-84.

Olsen, Tillie, ed. Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories. Old Westbury, NY: Feminist, 1985.

Pfaelzer, Jean. "Rebecca Harding Davis: Domesticity, Social Order, and the Industrial Novel." International Journal of Women's Studies 4.3 (1981): 234-44.

Pfaelzer, Jean. "The Sentimental Promise and the Utopian Myth: Rebecca Harding Davis's 'the Harmonists' and Louisa May Alcott's 'Transcendental Wild Oats'." American Transcendental Quarterly 3.1 (1989): 85-99.

---. "Legacy Profile: Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)." Legacy 7.2 (1990): 39-45.

---. "Domesticity and the Discourse of Slavery: 'John Lamar' and 'Blind Tom' by Rebecca Harding Davis." ESQ 38.1 (1992): 31-56.

---. "Subjectivity as Feminist Utopia." Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference. Ed. Jane L. (ed. & introd.)--Kolmerten Donawerth, Carol A. (ed. & introd.)--Gubar, Susan (fwd.). Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1994. 93-106.

---. Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism. Pittsburgh, PA: U of Pittsburgh P, 1996.

---. "Engendered Nature/Denatured History: 'the Yares of Black Mountain' by Rebecca Harding Davis." Speaking the Other Self: American Women Writers. Ed. Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 1997. 229-45.

---. "Nature, Nurture, and Nationalism: 'a Faded Leaf of History'." Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Critical Reader. Ed. Karen L. Kilcup. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998. 112-27.

Robinson, Jennifer Meta. Writing before the Ending: Art and Gender in the Work of Rebecca Harding Davis. 2002. Print.

Rose, Jane A.. "A Bibliography of Fiction and Non-Fiction by Rebecca Harding Davis." American Literary Realism 22.3 (1990): 67-86.

---. "Reading 'Life in the Iron-Mills' Contextually: A Key to Rebecca Harding Davis's Fiction." Conversations: Contemporary Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature. Ed. Charles --Penfield Moran, Elizabeth F. Urbana: Nat. Council of Teachers of Eng., 1990. 187-99.

---. "The Artist Manque in the Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis." Writing the Woman Artist: Essays on Poetics, Politics, and Portraiture. Ed. Suzanne W. Jones. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1991. 155-74.

---. "Images of Self: The Example of Rebecca Harding Davis and Charlotte Perkins Gilman." English Language Notes 29.4 (1992): 70-78.

---. Rebecca Harding Davis. Twayne's United States Authors Series ; Tusas 623. New York: Twayne, 1993.

Rozelle, Lee. Ecosublime: Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld. Tuscaloosa, AL: U of Alabama P, 2006. Print.

Rutkowski, Alice. Imagined Equality: Fictional Solutions to the Problem of Race in Early Reconstruction. 2004. Print.

Scheiber, Andrew J. "An Unknown Infrastructure: Gender, Production, and Aesthetic Exchange in Rebecca Harding Davis's 'Life in the Iron-Mills'." Legacy 11.2 (1994): 101-17.

Schocket, Eric. "'Discovering Some New Race': Rebecca Harding Davis's 'Life in the Iron Mills' and the Literary Emergence of Working-Class Whiteness." PMLA 115.1 (2000): 46-59.

Schocket, Eric. Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature. Class: Culture (Class: Culture). Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 2006. Print.

Seltzer, Mark. "The Still Life." American Literary History 3.3 (1991): 455-86.

Shurr, William H. "'Life in the Iron-Mills': A Nineteenth-Century Conversion Narrative." American Transcendental Quarterly 5.4 (1991): 245-57.

Sklar, Kathryn Kish, et al. "Victorian Women and Domestic Life: Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Harriet Beecher Stowe." 20-37 in Cullom Davis, Charles B. Strozier, Rebecca Monroe Veach, & Geoffrey C. Ward, Eds. The Public and the Private Lincoln: Contemporary Perspectives. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1979.

Sohn, Jeonghee. "[Feminizing Class?: Alienation and Reform in Margret Howth and the Silent Partner]." British and American Fiction to 1900 17 1 (2010): 29-55. Print.

Sonstegard, Adam. "Shaping a Body of One's Own: Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the Iron-Mills and Waiting for the Verdict." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 60 1 (2004): 99-124. Print.

Stoner, Ruth. "Rebecca Harding Davis's 'Second Life'; or 'Her Hands Could Be Trained as Well as His'." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 19 1 (2002): 44-52. Print.

Stoner, Ruth. "From Private Prostitute to Political New Woman: The Nineteenth-Century Actress in the Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis." Biblioteca Javier Coy D'estudis Nord-Americans (Biblioteca Javier Coy D'estudis Nord-Americans). Eds. Rodriguez, Miriam Lopez and Maria Dolores Narbona Carrion. Valencia, Spain: Universitat de Valencia, 2004. 183 pp. Print.

Treis, Alina Mildred. Literary Woman, Private Person: Rebecca Harding Davis and Her Heart and Hearth Ideology. 2005. Print.

Thomson, Rosemarie. "Benevolent Maternalism and Physically Disabled Figures: Dilemmas of Female Embodiment in Stowe, Davis, and Phelps." American Literature 68.3 (1996): 555-61.

Tomaszek, Terri. "Feminist Values for the 21st Century: Re-Reading the Essays of Rebecca Harding Davis." Re-Reading America: Changes and Challenges. Eds. Zhong, Weihe and Rui Han. Cheltenham, England: Reardon, 2004. v, 471 pp. Print.

Waldron, Karen E. "No Separations in the City: The Public-Private Novel and Private-Public Authorship." Separate Spheres No More: Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930. Ed. Monika M. Elbert. Tuscaloosa, AL: U of Alabama P, 2000. 92-113.

Yang, Seokwon. "[between Two Classes: Labor, Religion, and Art in Life in the Iron-Mills]." British and American Fiction to 1900 9 1 (2002): 53-79. Print.

Yellin, Jean Fagan. "The 'Feminization' of Rebecca Harding Davis." American Literary History 2.2 (1990): 203-19.

Womack, Whitney A. "Reforming Women's Reform Literature: Rebecca Harding Davis's Rewriting of the Industrial Novel." Our Sisters' Keepers: Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women. Eds. Jill Bergman and Debra Bernardi. Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism (Salrn): U of Alabama P, Tuscaloosa, AL Pagination: 105-31, 2005. x, 299.

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