Together by accident : American local color literature and the middle class / Stephanie C. Palmer.

Contents Can the genteel writer write the local novel?: Caroline Kirkland, Eliza Farnham, and Rose Terry Cooke -- Travel delays in the commercial countryside: Bret Harte and Sarah Orne Jewett -- Travel delays and provincial ambition: Rebecca Harding Davis and Thomas Detter -- Realist magic in the country and the city: William Dean Howells -- Angry reform from elsewhere in New England: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 201-218) and index.
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ISBN9780739124949 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0739124943 (cloth : alk. paper)
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