Pfaelzer agrees with Jane Atteridge Rose
not only that Life in the Iron-Mills explores the new aesthetic of realism but also (following Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
) that it represents the impact of a specifically female...
Literary responses
Rebecca Harding Davis
Jane Atteridge Rose
argues that this novella is unsuccessful in its satire, since satire requires caricature and Davis still strove for photorealism. Rose contends that the conclusion of the novel problematically forces the reader to...
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Texts
Rose, Jane Atteridge. Rebecca Harding Davis. Twayne Publishers, 1993.
