Bibliography of Secondary Works*

Aaron, Daniel.  The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.  41-42.

Allibone’s Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors: A Supplement.  1891.  Ed. John Foster Kirk.  Vol. 1.  Detroit: Gale, 1965.  462.  2 vols. 

Andrews, William L.  The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1980.  153, 154, 167.  [Waiting for the Verdict, racial passing, and miscegenation]

---.  “Miscegenation in the Late Nineteenth-Century American Novel.”  Southern Humanities Review 13 (1979): 13-24.

Austin, James C. “Success and Failure of Rebecca Harding Davis.” Midcontinent American Studies Journal 3.1 (1962): 44-49.

Bain, Robert, Joseph M. Flora, and Louis D. Rubin, Jr., eds.  Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary.  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1979.  118-19.

Ballou, Ellen B.  The Building of the House: Houghton Mifflin’s Formative Years.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.  120, 124.  [Riverside Magazine, children’s literature]

Berzon, Judith R.  Neither White Nor Black: The Mulatto Character in American Fiction.  New York: New York UP, 1978.  146-48, 195-96.  [Waiting for the Verdict, passing, religion]

“Bibliography.”  Women and Literature 7.3 (1979): 108.

“Bibliography.”  Women and Literature 6.2 (1978): 64.

“Bibliography.”  Women and Literature 5.2 (1977): 93.

“Bibliography.”  Women and Literature 3.2 (1975): 55.

The Bibliophile Dictionary: A Biographical Record of the Great Authors.  1904.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1966.  n. pag.  [A Law unto Herself]

Blake, Fay M. The Strike in the American Novel.  Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1972.  7-9, 72-73, 209-10.  [Margret Howth]

Boudreau, Kristin. “‘The Woman’s Flesh of Me’: Rebecca Harding Davis’s Response to Self-Reliance.”  American Transcendental Quarterly 6.2 (1992): 132-40.

Buchanan, Laurie, and Laura Ingram.  “Rebecca Harding Davis.”  DLB: American Short-Story Writers before 1880.  Ed. Bobby Ellen Kimbel and William E. Grant.  Detroit: Gale, 1988.  92-96.

Buckley, J. F.  “Living in the Iron Mills: A Tempering of Nineteenth-Century America’s Orphic Poet.”  Journal of American Culture 16.1 (1993): 67-72.

Cadwallader, Robin L. “‘For Love’s Sake’: Literature as an Appeal for Kindness or the Benevolent Work of Three Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers.” DAI 65.2 (2004): 513.

Curnutt, Kirk. “Direct Addresses, Narrative Authority, and Gender in Rebecca Harding Davis’s ‘Life in the Iron Mills.’” Style 28.2 (1994): 146-68.

Dauber, Kenneth.  “Realistically Speaking: Authorship in the Late Nineteenth Century and Beyond.”  American Literary History 11.2 (1999): 378-90.

De Santis, Christopher C. “Southern Reconstruction and the Rhetoric of Enlightened Paternalism in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Waiting for the Verdict.” CLA Journal 41.3 (1998): 249-68.

Diamond, Nina. “1861 Revolution in the Atlantic: A Contextual Analysis of ‘Life in the Iron Mills.’” Wittenberg Review 1.1 (1990): 19-29.

Dingledine, Don.  “Romances of Reconstruction: The Postwar Marriage Plot in Rebecca Harding Davis and John William De Forest.”  Back to Peace: Reconciliation and Retribution in the Postwar Period.  Ed. Aránzazu Usandizaga and Andrew Monnickendam.  Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 2007. 147-59.

Doriani, Beth Maclay.  “New England Calvinism and the Problem of the Poor in Rebecca Harding Davis’s ‘Life in the Iron Mills.’” Literary Calvinism and Nineteenth-Century American Women Authors.  Ed. Michael Schuldiner.  Studies in Puritan American Spirituality (SPAS) 6. Lewiston: Mellen, 1997. 179-224.

Dow, William. “Performative Passages: Davis’s ‘Life in the Iron Mills,’ Crane’s Maggie, and Norris’s McTeague.”  Twisted from the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism. Ed. Mary E. Papke. Tennessee Studies in Literature (TStL) 40. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2003. 23-44.

Eppard, Philip B. “Rebecca Harding Davis: A Misattribution.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 69.1 (1975): 265-67.

Goodling, Sara Britton.  “The Silent Partnership: Naturalism and Sentimentalism in the Novels of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.” Twisted from the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism. Ed. Mary E. Papke.  Tennessee Studies in Literature (TStL) 40. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2003. 1-22.

Goodman, Charlotte. “Portraits of the Artiste Manqué by Three Women Novelists.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 5.3 (1980): 57-59.

Grayburn, William Frazer. “The Major Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis.” DA 26.1 (1965): 2211.

Harris, Sharon M. “Rebecca Harding Davis: A Continuing Misattribution.”  Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 5.1 (1988): 33-34.

---.  Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1991.

---. “Rebecca Harding Davis: From Romanticism to Realism.” American Literary Realism 21.2 (1989): 4-20.

---. “Rebecca Harding Davis in the Context of American Literary Realism/Naturalism.” DAI 50.1 (1989): 139-40A.

---. “Redefining the Feminine: Women and Work in Rebecca Harding Davis’s ‘In the Market.’” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 8.2 (1992): 118-32.

Harris, Sharon M., and Robin L. Cadwallader.  Rebecca Harding Davis’s Stories of the Civil War Era: Selected Writings from the Borderlands.  Athens: U of Georgia P, 2010.

Henwood, Dawn. “Slaveries ‘In the Borders’: Rebecca Harding Davis’s ‘Life in the Iron Mills’ in Its Southern Context.” Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures 52.4 (1999): 567-92.

---. “Voice from the Borderland: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Southern Roots of American Social Protest Fiction.” DAI 61.1 (2000): 181.

Hesford, Walter. “Literary Contexts of 'Life in the Iron-Mills.’” American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 49.1 (1977): 70-85.

Hughes, Sheila Hassell. “Between Bodies of Knowledge There Is a Great Gulf Fixed: A Liberationist Reading of Class and Gender in ‘Life in the Iron Mills.’” American Quarterly 49.1 (1997): 113-37.

Hood, Richard A. “Framing a ‘Life in the Iron Mills.’” Studies in American Fiction 23.1 (1995): 73-84.

James, Henry.  “Rebecca Harding Davis.”  Literary Criticism: Vol. 1: Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers.  New York: Library of America, 1984. 218-29.  [Reviews of Waiting for the Verdict and Dallas Galbraith from the Nation.]

Knadler, Stephen.  “‘Miscegenated Whiteness’: Rebecca Harding Davis, the ‘Civilizing’ War, and Female Racism.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 57.1 (2002): 64-99.

Lang, Amy Schrager.  “Class and the Strategies of Sympathy.”  The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in 19th Century America.  Ed. Shirley Samuels.  New York: Oxford UP, 1992.  128-42.

Langford, Gerald.  The Richard Harding Davis Years: A Biography of Mother and Son.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961.

Lasseter, Janice Milner. “‘Boston in the Sixties’: Rebecca Harding Davis’s View of Boston and Concord during the Civil War.” Concord Saunterer 3.1 (1995): 64-86.

---. “The Censored and Uncensored Literary Lives of ‘Life in the Iron Mills.’” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 20.1-2 (2003): 175-90.

---. “Hawthorne’s Legacy to Rebecca Harding Davis.” Hawthorne and Women: Engendering and Expanding the Hawthorne Tradition. Ed. John L. Idol and Melinda M. Ponder. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1999. 168-78.

---. “Hawthorne’s Stories and Rebecca Harding Davis: A Note.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 25.1 (1999): 31-34.

---. “Rebecca Harding Davis.”   DLB: American Women Prose Writers, 1820-1870.  Ed. Amy E. Hudock and Katharine Rodier. Detroit: Gale, 2001. 55-70.

Long, Lisa A. “Imprisoned in/at Home: Criminal Culture in Rebecca Harding Davis’ Margret Howth: A Story of To-day.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 54.2 (1998): 65-98.

---.  “The Postbellum Reform Writings of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.”  The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing.  Ed. Dale M. Bauer and Philip Gould.  Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2001. 262-83.

---. “Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910).” Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Denise D. Knight and Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport: Greenwood, 1997. 88-98.

Luna, Rosa Muñoz. “Pioneering Feminism: Deborah’s Role in ‘Life in the Iron-Mills.’” Grove: Working Papers on English Studies 10.1 (2003): 101-10.

Malpezzi, Frances M. “Sisters in Protest: Rebecca Harding Davis and Tillie Olsen.” RE: Artes Liberales 12.2 (1986): 1-9.

Miles, Caroline S. “Representing and Self-Mutilating the Laboring Male Body: Re-Examining Rebecca Harding Davis’s ‘Life in the Iron Mills.’” American Transcendental Quarterly 18.2 (2004): 90-104.

Miller, Jeffrey W. “‘A Desolate, Shabby Home’: Rebecca Harding Davis, Margret Howth, and Domestic Ideology.”  American Transcendental Quarterly 17.4 (2003): 259-79.

Mock, Michele L. “‘An Ardor That Was Human, and a Power That Was Art’: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Art of the Periodical.” “The Only Efficient Instrument”: American Women Writers and the Periodical, 1837-1916.  Ed. Aleta Feinsod Cane and Susan Alves.  Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2001. 126-46.

---. “‘Led by a Woman’s Hand’: Rebecca Harding Davis’s Gendered Economies as a Countervoice to Philosophies of Culture and Art.”  DAI 57.10 (1997): 4371.

---. “Woman, Nature, and the White Plague: Rebecca Harding Davis’s ‘The Yares of the Black Mountains: A True Story.’” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 19.2 (2002): 152-69.

Morrison, Lucy. “The Search for the Artist in Man and Fulfillment in Life-Rebecca Harding Davis’s ‘Life in the Iron Mills.’” Studies in Short Fiction 33.2 (1996): 245-53.

Noe, Kenneth W.  “‘Deadened Color and Colder Horror’”: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Myth of Unionist Appalachia.”  Confronting Appalachian Stereotypes: Back Talk from an American Region.  Ed. Dwight B. Billings, Gurney Norman, and Katherine Ledford.  Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1999.  67-84.

Novak, Terry. “Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910).”  Writers of the American Renaissance: An A-to-Z Guide.  Ed. Denise D. Knight. Westport: Greenwood, 2003. 81-86.

Pfaelzer, Jean. “Domesticity and the Discourse of Slavery: ‘John Lamar’ and ‘Blind Tom’ by Rebecca Harding Davis.”  ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 38.1 (1992): 31-56.

---. “Engendered Nature/Denatured History: ‘The Yares of Black Mountain’ by Rebecca Harding Davis.”  Speaking the Other Self: American Women Writers. Ed. Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1997. 229-45.

---. “Legacy Profile: Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910).” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 7.2 (1990): 39-45.

---.  “Nature, Nurture, and Nationalism: ‘A Faded Leaf of History.’”  Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Critical Reader.  Ed. Karen Kilcup.  Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 1998.  112-27.

---.  Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1996.

---. “Rebecca Harding Davis: Domesticity, Social Order, and the Industrial Novel.” International Journal of Women’s Studies 4.3 (1981): 234-44.

---. “The Sentimental Promise and the Utopian Myth: Rebecca Harding Davis’s ‘The Harmonists’ and Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Transcendental Wild Oats.’” American Transcendental Quarterly 3.1 (1989): 85-99.

---.  “Subjectivity as Feminist Utopia.”  Utopian and Science Fiction by Women: Worlds of Difference.  Ed. Jane L. Donawerth, Carol A. Kolmerten.  Syracuse: Syracuse UP, 1999.  93-106.

Robinson, Jennifer Meta. “Writing before the Ending: Art and Gender in the Work of Rebecca Harding Davis.”  DAI 62.8 (2002): 2764.

Rose, Jane Atteridge.  “The Artist Manqué in the Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis.”  Writing the Woman Artist: Essays on Poetics, Politics, and Portraiture.  Ed. Suzanne W. Jones. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1991. 155-74.

---. “A Bibliography of Fiction and Non-Fiction by Rebecca Harding Davis.” American Literary Realism 22.3 (1990): 67-86.

---. “The Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis: A Palimpsest of Domestic Ideology beneath a Surface of Realism.” DAI 49.9 (1989): 2661A.

---. “Images of Self: The Example of Rebecca Harding Davis and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.” English Language Notes 29.4 (1992): 70-78.

---. “Reading ‘Life in the Iron-Mills’ Contextually: A Key to Rebecca Harding Davis’s Fiction.”  Conversations: Contemporary Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature. Ed. Charles Moran and Elizabeth F. Penfield. Urbana: Nat. Council of Teachers of Eng., 1990. 187-99.

---.  Rebecca Harding Davis.  New York: Macmillan, 1993.

Scheiber, Andrew J. “An Unknown Infrastructure: Gender, Production, and Aesthetic Exchange in Rebecca Harding Davis’s ‘Life in the Iron-Mills.’” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 11.2 (1994): 101-17.

Schocket, Eric. “‘Discovering Some New Race’: Rebecca Harding Davis’s ‘Life in the Iron Mills’ and the Literary Emergence of Working-Class Whiteness.” PMLA 115.1 (2000): 46-59.

See, Fred G. “Metaphoric and Metonymic Imagery in XIXth Century American Fiction: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Harold Frederic.” DAI 28.1 (1968): 4647A.

Sheaffer, Helen Woodward.  “Rebecca Harding Davis: Pioneer Realist.”  Unpublished Thesis. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, U of Pennsylvania, 1947.

Shurr, William H. “‘Life in the Iron-Mills’: A Nineteenth-Century Conversion Narrative.” American Transcendental Quarterly 5.4 (1991): 245-57.

Silver, Andrew. “‘Unnatural Unions’: Picturesque Travel, Sexual Politics, and Working-Class Representation in ‘A Night under Ground’ and ‘Life in the Iron-Mills’.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 20.1-2 (2003): 94-117.

Sonstegard, Adam. “Shaping a Body of One’s Own: Rebecca Harding Davis’s ‘Life in the Iron-Mills’ and Waiting for the Verdict.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 60.1 (2004): 99-124.

Stemple, Ruth M. “Rebecca Harding Davis: A Check List.” Bulletin of Bibliography 22.1 (1957): 83-85.

Stoner, Ruth.  “From Private Prostitute to Political New Woman: The Nineteenth-Century Actress in the Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis.” Women’s Contribution to Nineteenth-Century American Theatre. Ed. Miriam López Rodríguez and María Dolores Narbona Carrión. Biblioteca Javier Coy d’Estudis Nord-Americans. Valencia, Spain: U de València, 2004. 153-68.

---. “Rebecca Harding Davis’s ‘Second Life’; or ‘Her Hands Could Be Trained as Well as His.’” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 19.1 (2002): 44-52.

---. “Sexing the Narrator: Gender in Rebecca Harding Davis’s ‘Life in the Iron-Mills.’” Scribbling Women & the Short Story Form: Approaches by American & British Women Writers.  Ed. Ellen Burton Harrington.  New York: Peter Lang, 2008.  28-36.

Thomson, Rosemarie. “Benevolent Maternalism and Physically Disabled Figures: Dilemmas of Female Embodiment in Stowe, Davis, and Phelps.” American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 68.3 (1996): 555-61.

Tomaszek, Terri. “Feminist Values for the 21st Century: Re-Reading the Essays of Rebecca Harding Davis.” Re-Reading America: Changes and Challenges.  Ed. Weihe Zhong and Rui Han. Cheltenham, England: Reardon, 2004. 351-55.

Tomaszek, Therese Marie.  ”Beyond the Rational: An Intersubjective Alternative to the Individual in the Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis.” DAI 60.8 (2000): 2930-31.

Treis, Alina Mildred.  ”Literary Woman, Private Person: Rebecca Harding Davis and Her Heart and Hearth Ideology.” DAI 65.9 (2005): 3390.

Vallis, Stacey Ann.  “Embodying the Unspeakable in Melville, Hawthorne, and Davis.”  DAI 52.9 (1992): 328.

Womack, Whitney A.  ”Reforming Women’s Reform Literature: Rebecca Harding Davis’s Rewriting of the Industrial Novel.” Our Sisters’ Keepers: Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women. Ed. Jill Bergman and Debra Bernardi. Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism (SALRN). Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2005. 105-31.

Yellin, Jean Fagan. “The ‘Feminization’ of Rebecca Harding Davis.” American Literary History 2.2 (1990): 203-19.

*This bibliography (compiled by Eric Horrell, Saint Francis University, 1 May 2010) builds on Sharon M. Harris’s “Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910): A Bibliography of Secondary Criticism, 1958-1986.” Bulletin of Bibliography 45.4 (1988 Dec.): 233-46.