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Rebecca Harding Davis

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Rebecca Harding Davis Biography (2)

Rebecca (Blaine) Harding Davis

2,491 words, approx. 9 pages

Rebecca Harding Davis, who came to maturity during the Civil War, wrote about the effects of that war on those who awaited its outcome at home. An astute and imaginative observer, she is noted for her... Read more

Rebecca (Blaine) Harding Davis

7,121 words, approx. 24 pages

Rebecca Harding Davis broke new ground as an American fiction writer and journalist. When her novella Life in the Iron Mills appeared in the April 1861 edition of The Atlantic Monthly, it startled rea... Read more

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Critical Essay by Sheila Hassell Hughes

10,253 words, approx. 35 pages

In the following essay, Hughes maintains that “Life in the Iron Mills” should be read as a religious parable and goes on to analyze the text in the context of liberation. Critics have re... Read more

Critical Essay by Walter Hesford

6,270 words, approx. 21 pages

In the following essay, Hesford examines “Life in the Iron Mills” in the literary contexts of the achievement of Hawthorne, the tradition of the social novel, and the religious bias of m... Read more

Critical Essay by Sharon M. Harris

7,777 words, approx. 26 pages

In the following essay, Harris analyzes the complex narrative structure of “Life in the Iron Mills” in terms of the movement from romanticism to realism, concluding that the story reject... Read more

Critical Essay by William H. Shurr

6,771 words, approx. 23 pages

In the following essay, Shurr contends that the narrator of “Life in the Iron Mills” is the character Mitchell, and that the story can be best understood as a conversion narrative. ... Read more

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