Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Subversive Politics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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This seminal study reveals how Constance Fenimore Woolson participated in debates on nineteenth-century political topics considered the province of men. She commented on the most important issues of her time: monetary policy, post-Reconstruction legal decisions, racial justice and interracial marriage, women’s rights, religious hypocrisy, environmental destruction, destabilizing international developments, and the moral character of the nation. The innovative essays in this book introduce her techniques and the political concerns that inspired her complicated art, encouraging scholars to begin the process of rereading and reanalyzing Woolson’s oeuvre to understand the compelling allegories and satires she created. The oppositional, intertextual, and referential techniques she developed allowed her to enter contested political conversations about compelling nineteenth-century problems like few women of her century, sometimes making her work political commentary as much as fiction.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-05-24
Mått159 x 240 x 20 mm
Vikt494 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor230
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666921533

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. “The Lady of Little Fishing” (1874) and “Castle Nowhere” (1875): The Politics of Race and MoneyChapter 2. “Mission Endeavor” (1876): Jerusalem on Lake SuperiorChapter 3. “Mrs. Edward Pinckney” (1879): Interracial Marriage in the Post-Bellum SouthChapter 4. “A Florentine Experiment” (1880): J. P. Morgan and the Responsibilities of WealthChapter 5. For the Major (1882): Lies, Secrets, SilenceChapter 6. Horace Chase (1893): Gilded Age Sense and SensibilityChapter 7. “A Waitress” (1894): American Complacency at the Fin de SiècleConclusionBibliographyAbout the Author

Victoria Brehm makes us look deeper into Woolson’s prose and motivations in order to uncover her profound concern with national events, international politics, and the ambiguities of social and political leaders. Brehm pierces through the self-protective screens that Woolson often used to mask these issues by analyzing seemingly minute references and by uncovering a complex underbody of satire, allegory, and yes, anger at a world that denies women rights. Particularly strong readings of "For the Major" and Horace Chase impress, but shorter works, we find, underneath romantic surfaces, also provide sharp takes on the gold standard, industrialization, and the corruptions of the gilded age. Well researched, and eloquently written, this study gives us unsuspected and rewarding apertures into a great artist’s ideological concerns and methods.