Sharon M. Harris

Standard Name: Harris, Sharon M.

Connections

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Birth Rebecca Harding Davis
She was the eldest of eight children, three of whom died in infancy.
Davis, Rebecca Harding. “A Family History”. Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography, edited by Janice Milner Lasseter and Sharon M. Harris, Vanderbilt University Press, 2001, pp. 137-48.
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Her mother left her marital home in Big Spring (now Florence), Alabama, to give birth at her own childhood home...
Family and Intimate relationships Rebecca Harding Davis
Some commentators hold that Davis favoured her elder son to the neglect of her daughter. Jean Pfaelzer charges her with this while Sharon Harris defends her.
Harris, Sharon M. Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
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Pfaelzer, Jean. Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.
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Literary responses Rebecca Harding Davis
Since Olsen's reprint, RHD 's Life in the Iron-Mills has become accepted as an American classic.
Davis, Rebecca Harding. “Biographical Introduction”. Life in the Iron Mills; or, the Korl Woman, edited by Tillie Olsen, The Feminist Press, 1972.
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It is seen as marking the turn in American fiction from the romantic or sentimental towards realism....
Literary responses Rebecca Harding Davis
More recently, Sharon M. Harris contended that A Law Unto Herself remains ambiguous in its attitude towards female emancipation from the unjust laws of the nineteenth century. Although Jane gains freedom from her oppressive husband...
politics Rebecca Harding Davis
Critics are still divided on RHD 's attitude towards suffrage. Jean Pfaelzer explains: Although Davis was concerned about abolition, temperance reform, divorce law, and prostitution, it appears that she never joined groups or walked in...
Textual Production Rebecca Harding Davis
According to Sharon M. Harris , RHD 's upbringing in Wheeling, West Virginia, where rapid industrialization began shortly after the Hardings settled there, inspired her to expose the realities of American life.
Harris, Sharon M. Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
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She...

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Texts

Davis, Rebecca Harding. “A Family History”. Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography, edited by Janice Milner Lasseter and Sharon M. Harris, Vanderbilt University Press, 2001, pp. 137-48.
Davis, Rebecca Harding. “Bits of Gossip”. Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography, edited by Janice Milner Lasseter and Sharon M. Harris, Vanderbilt University Press, 2001, pp. 21-134.
Harris, Sharon M., and Judith Sargent Murray. “Introduction”. Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray, edited by Sharon M. Harris and Sharon M. Harris, Oxford University Press, 1995, p. xv - xliv.
Lasseter, Janice Milner, and Sharon M. Harris, editors. “Introduction”. Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography, Vanderbilt University Press, 2001, pp. 1-19.
Harris, Sharon M. Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
Murray, Judith Sargent. Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray. Editor Harris, Sharon M., Oxford University Press, 1995.
Harris, Sharon M., editor. Women’s Early American Historical Narratives. Penguin, 2003.