Jean Pfaelzer

Standard Name: Pfaelzer, Jean

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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
Jean Pfaelzer has admired its world of complex moral choices.
qtd. in
Pfaelzer, Jean. Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.
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As an ambitious but weak man who is easily tempted by social pressures,Pfaelzer argues that Andross prefigures characters such as William Dean Howells
Literary responses Rebecca Harding Davis
Jean Pfaelzer sees RHD as using transcendentalism, a discourse of the self, against itself to create a discourse of the commonplace that could fuse the imaginative and the economic, the private and the public.
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
Recent commentators (for instance, Jean Pfaelzer in her monograph and Janice Milner Lasseter in her Dictionary of Literary Biography article) differ from each other in the attitudes to race which they find reflected in the...
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 Features Rebecca Harding Davis
Pfaelzer calls this a story of what happens when the world of politics is deprived of female sensibility and of what happens when female sensibility is deprived of power.
qtd. in
Pfaelzer, Jean. Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.
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It tells the story of...

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Pfaelzer, Jean. Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.