Refusing to Write Like Henry James: Women Reforming Realism in Fin-de-Siècle America
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Sarah WadsworthKeywords
realismRoger Hunt
A Girl Graduate
Love and Theology
Chicago World’s Fair (1893)
World’s Columbian Exposition
women’s club movement
reform movements
Rebecca; or
A Woman’s Secret
domestic reform novel
women’s education
regional reform novel
His Broken Sword
prison reform
regionalism
historical reform novel
The Heroine of ’49
marriage
Indian rights
domestic violence
divorce
land reform
Fettered for Life; or
Lord and Master
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DOAJ:Multidisciplinary
DOAJ:General Works
History America
E-F
United States
E151-889
Sociology (General)
HM401-1281
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In her novel Roger Hunt (1892)—a novel of near Jamesian nuance and irony—Celia Parker Woolley incorporates a scene in which a handful of characters engage in “psychological analysis” (35) of the eponymous antihero: a brilliant but unscrupulous egotist who has abandoned his alcoholic wife and persuaded a naïve, infatuated young woman to unite with him in a bigamous marriage. Following several pages of discussion of the scandalous incident and its perpetrator, Kitty Somers, Hunt’s long-time fr...Date
2011-04-01Type
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