Mary Wollstonecraft wrote her first novel, Mary: A Fiction, to express her most personal beliefs. An autobiographical work, Mary has been evaluated by later critics as too sentimental an expression to represent high-quality writing, and that inferiority in expression results… Read More ›
A fiction subgenre of a realistic nature that focuses on the home scene, domestic realism evolved from the reaction against Romanticism that occurred in the mid-19th century. Following the preoccupation of the Romantic writers (1789–1837) with the superiority of intuition… Read More ›
Aside from the antislavery movement, perhaps the most significant social activism in nineteenth-century America occurred within the women’s movement. Many of America’s earliest women’s-rights activists, such as Lydia Maria Child, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, first became radicalized by… Read More ›
You must be logged in to post a comment.