Böcker av Susan K. Harris

Follows Mark Twain's last lecture tour as he wound his way through the British Empire in 1895-1896. Deftly blending history, biography, literary criticism, reportage, and travel memoir, Susan Harris gives readers a unique take on one of America's most widely studied writers.

This study proposes interpretive strategies for nineteenth-century American women's novels. Harris contends that women in the nineteenth century read subversively, 'processing texts according to gender based imperatives'. Harris scans white, middle-class women's writing throughout the nineteenth century.