Davis, Rebecca Harding A Law Unto Herself 9780803238145

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Автор: Davis, Rebecca Harding
Название: A Law Unto Herself
ISBN: 9780803238145
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Классическая художественная литература (до 1945 Г.)

ISBN-10: 0803238142
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 234
Вес: 0.35 кг.
Дата издания: 01.01.2015
Серия: Legacies of nineteenth-century american women writers
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 14
Ключевые слова: Historical fiction,History of the Americas,Gender studies: women, FICTION / Historical,HISTORY / United States / 19th Century,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: A scathing critique of the legal status of women and their property rights in nineteenth-century America, Rebecca Harding Daviss 1878 novel A Law Unto Herself chronicles the experiences of Jane Swendon, a seemingly na ve 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 Womens Property Laws. Through three fascinating female characters, the novel also invites readers to consider evolving gender roles during a time of cultural change. 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.
Дополнительное описание: Acknowledgments
Editor's Introduction
A Note on the Text
A Law Unto Herself
Notes

A Law Unto Herself, Davis, Rebecca Harding