Between Science and Ethics in Rebecca Harding Davis's "Waiting for the Verdict"

Rebecca Harding Davis’ s still relatively obscure novel, _Waiting for the Verdict_ (serialised in 1867), is a complex study of the vicissitudes of race and class during the Civil War and in its immediate aftermath. Using an array of sentimental/reformist, proto-realist and realist narrative and styl...

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Matična publikacija: Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture
LVI (2008), 4 ; str. 359-375
Glavni autor: Šesnić, Jelena (-)
Vrsta građe: Članak
Jezik: eng
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