Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index.
Contents:
"The lady of little fishing" (1874) and "Castle nowhere" (1875) : the politics of race and money -- "Mission endeavor" (1876) : Jerusalem on Lake Superior -- "Mrs. Edward Pinckney" (1879) : interracial marriage in the post-bellum South -- "A Florentine experiment" (1880) : J. P. Morgan and the responsibilities of wealth -- 'For the major' (1882) : lies, secrets, silence -- 'Horace Chase' (1893) : Gilded Age sense and sensibility -- "A waitress" (1894) : American complacency at the Fin de siècle.
Summary:
"A pioneering introduction to the oppositional, referential techniques Woolson developed to enter contested nineteenth-century political conversations about monetary policy, post-Reconstruction legal decisions, racial justice, women's rights, religious hypocrisy, environmental destruction, and destabilizing political developments"-- Provided by publisher.
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