Reforming the world
Subtitle: social activism and the problem of fiction in nineteenth-century America
By: María Carla Sánchez.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781587296949
Subjects: American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Social change in literature; Social problems in literature; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: The devil and his angels; title: The panic of 1837 and the failures of literary men; title: Sentimentalizing the fallen woman; title: Making history with Child and Stowe; title: Saying goodbye to Timothy Shay Arthur.