Auteur: Cynthia J. Davis

Women Writers in the United States is a celebration of the many forms of work–written and social, tangible and intangible–produced by American women. Davis and West document the variety and volume …

The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilized ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects …

The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilized ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects …

Considers Gilman s place in American literary and social history by examining her relationships to other prominent intellectuals of her era By placing Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the company of her c …