A Comprehensive Study of American Writer Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844-1911: Art for Truth's SakeEdwin Mellen Press, 2003 - 291 pages This work examines the novels, essays, and short stories of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps within their cultural/historical context. It examines the social climate and reform movements during Phelps' writing career, and shows how she was a woman ahead of her time in the 19th century. |
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... moral responsibility can be removed from the art : Fear less to seem " Puritan " than to be inadequate . Fear more to be superficial than to seem " deep . " Fear less to " point your moral " than to miss your opportunity . Where " the ...
... moral responsibility can be removed from the art : Fear less to seem " Puritan " than to be inadequate . Fear more to be superficial than to seem " deep . " Fear less to " point your moral " than to miss your opportunity . Where " the ...
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... moral idea , " just as Harriet Beecher Stowe had done fifty years previously . " Although many have seen both Stowe's and Phelps's novels as " moralizing " and " sentimental , " Phelps herself believed that the exploration of problems ...
... moral idea , " just as Harriet Beecher Stowe had done fifty years previously . " Although many have seen both Stowe's and Phelps's novels as " moralizing " and " sentimental , " Phelps herself believed that the exploration of problems ...
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... moral element , it cannot be denied , predominates enormously in the human drama . The moral struggle , the creation of character , the moral ideal , failure and success in reaching it , an- guish and ecstasy in missing or gaining it ...
... moral element , it cannot be denied , predominates enormously in the human drama . The moral struggle , the creation of character , the moral ideal , failure and success in reaching it , an- guish and ecstasy in missing or gaining it ...
Contents
The Literary Life of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | 1 |
Phelps | 27 |
The Fingers of the World | 61 |
Copyright | |
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Contesting the Past, Reconstructing the Nation: American Literature and ... Ben Railton No preview available - 2007 |