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4 avril 2011
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A Girl Graduate A Woman’s Secret Chicago World’s Fair (1893) divorce domestic reform novel domestic violence Fettered for Life; or His Broken Sword historical reform novel Indian rights land reform Lord and Master Love and Theology marriage prison reform realism Rebecca; or reform movements regional reform novel regionalism Roger Hunt The Heroine of ’49 women’s club movement women’s education World’s Columbian ExpositionSujets proches
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Sarah Wadsworth, « Refusing to Write Like Henry James: Women Reforming Realism in Fin-de-Siècle America », European journal of American studies, ID : 10.4000/ejas.9067
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In her novel Roger Hunt (1892)—a novel of near Jamesian nuance and irony—Celia Parker Woolley incorporates a scene in which a handful of characters engage in “psychological analysis” (35) of the eponymous antihero: a brilliant but unscrupulous egotist who has abandoned his alcoholic wife and persuaded a naïve, infatuated young woman to unite with him in a bigamous marriage. Following several pages of discussion of the scandalous incident and its perpetrator, Kitty Somers, Hunt’s long-time fri...