Title: Together by accident : American local color literature and the middle class /
Authors: Palmer, Stephanie C.
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Year: 2009
Subjects: American literature History and criticism; Accidents in literature.; American literature History and criticism; Local color in literature.; Travel in literature.; Middle class in literature.; City and town life in literature
Contents: Can the genteel writer write the local novel?: Caroline Kirkland, Eliza Farnham, and Rose Terry Cooke -- Travel delays in the commercial countryside: Bret Harte and Sarah Orne Jewett -- Travel delays and provincial ambition: Rebecca Harding Davis and Thomas Detter -- Realist magic in the country and the city: William Dean Howells -- Angry reform from elsewhere in New England: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.