Together by accident
Subtitle: American local color literature and the middle class
By: Stephanie C. Palmer.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780739124949; 9780739132128
Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Accidents in literature; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Local color in literature; Travel in literature; Middle class in literature; City and town life in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Can the genteel writer write the local novel?: Caroline Kirkland, Eliza Farnham, and Rose Terry Cooke; title: Travel delays in the commercial countryside: Bret Harte and Sarah Orne Jewett; title: Travel delays and provincial ambition: Rebecca Harding Davis and Thomas Detter; title: Realist magic in the country and the city: William Dean Howells; title: Angry reform from elsewhere in New England: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.