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This is the first anthology of Davis' civil war-era work. The ten
stories gathered here show Rebecca Harding Davis to be an acute
observer of the conflicts and ambiguities of a divided nation and
position her as a major transitional writer between romanticism and
realism. Capturing the fluctuating cultural environment of the
Civil War and Reconstruction eras, the stories explore such issues
as racial prejudice and slavery, the loneliness and powerlessness
of women, and the effects of postwar market capitalism on the
working classes. Davis' characters include soldiers and civilians,
men and women, young and old, black and white. Instead of focusing
(like many writers of the period) on major conflicts and leaders,
Davis takes readers into the intimate battles fought on family
farms and backwoods roads, delving into the minds of those who
experienced the destruction on both sides of the conflict. Davis
spent the war years in the Pennsylvania and Virginia borderlands, a
region she called a 'vast armed camp'. Here, divided families,
ravaged communities, and shifting loyalties were the norm. As the
editors say, 'Davis does not limit herself to writing about
slavery, abolition, or reconstruction. Instead, she shows us that
through the fighting, the rebuilding, and the politics, life goes
on. Even during a war, people must live: they work, eat, sleep, and
love'.
This collection is the first of its kind to interrogate both
literal and metaphorical transatlantic exchanges of culture and
ideas in nineteenth-century girls’ fiction. As such, it initiates
conversations about how the motif of travel in literature taught
nineteenth-century girl audiences to reexamine their own cultural
biases by offering a fresh perspective on literature that is often
studied primarily within a national context. Women and children in
nineteenth-century America are often described as being tied to the
home and the domestic sphere, but this collection challenges this
categorization and shows that girls in particular were often
expected to go abroad and to learn new cultural frames in order to
enter the realm of adulthood; those who could not afford to go
abroad literally could do so through the stories that traveled to
them from other lands or the stories they read of others’
travels. Via transatlantic exchange, then, authors, readers, and
the characters in the texts covered in this collection confront the
idea of what constitutes the self. Books examined in this volume
include Adeline Trafton’s An American Girl Abroad (1872), Johanna
Spyri’s Heidi (1881), and Elizabeth W. Champney’s eleven-book
Vassar Girl Series (1883-92), among others.
This collection is the first of its kind to interrogate both
literal and metaphorical transatlantic exchanges of culture and
ideas in nineteenth-century girls' fiction. As such, it initiates
conversations about how the motif of travel in literature taught
nineteenth-century girl audiences to reexamine their own cultural
biases by offering a fresh perspective on literature that is often
studied primarily within a national context. Women and children in
nineteenth-century America are often described as being tied to the
home and the domestic sphere, but this collection challenges this
categorization and shows that girls in particular were often
expected to go abroad and to learn new cultural frames in order to
enter the realm of adulthood; those who could not afford to go
abroad literally could do so through the stories that traveled to
them from other lands or the stories they read of others' travels.
Via transatlantic exchange, then, authors, readers, and the
characters in the texts covered in this collection confront the
idea of what constitutes the self. Books examined in this volume
include Adeline Trafton's An American Girl Abroad (1872), Johanna
Spyri's Heidi (1881), and Elizabeth W. Champney's eleven-book
Vassar Girl Series (1883-92), among others.
Daughter of Affliction is a religious memoir first published in
1858 by a rural, west-central Pennsylvania woman. The text was
expanded and reprinted in 1871 and 1887. In her memoir, Mary Rankin
reflects on her "protracted sufferings and religious experience."
She also makes reference to many religious, social, and political
happenings of her day, such as camp meetings, county fairs, the
Civil War, and Lincoln's assassination. Additionally, her detailed
descriptions of the medical treatments she received provide direct
insight into the medical practices of the mid-nineteenth century.
Dr. Robin L. Cadwallader's meticulous editing enhances Rankin's
text with additional biographical, historical, geographical,
religious, and medical information. Additionally, Cadwallader's
afterword contextualizes Rankin's time and place, situating her
life and memoir in the evangelical tradition of the
nineteenth-century.
This is the first anthology of Davis' civil war-era work. The ten
stories gathered here show Rebecca Harding Davis to be an acute
observer of the conflicts and ambiguities of a divided nation and
position her as a major transitional writer between romanticism and
realism. Capturing the fluctuating cultural environment of the
Civil War and Reconstruction eras, the stories explore such issues
as racial prejudice and slavery, the loneliness and powerlessness
of women, and the effects of postwar market capitalism on the
working classes. Davis' characters include soldiers and civilians,
men and women, young and old, black and white. Instead of focusing
(like many writers of the period) on major conflicts and leaders,
Davis takes readers into the intimate battles fought on family
farms and backwoods roads, delving into the minds of those who
experienced the destruction on both sides of the conflict. Davis
spent the war years in the Pennsylvania and Virginia borderlands, a
region she called a 'vast armed camp'. Here, divided families,
ravaged communities, and shifting loyalties were the norm. As the
editors say, 'Davis does not limit herself to writing about
slavery, abolition, or reconstruction. Instead, she shows us that
through the fighting, the rebuilding, and the politics, life goes
on. Even during a war, people must live: they work, eat, sleep, and
love'.
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