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Rebecca Harding Davis’s Human Stories of the Civil War
No full textThe decades leading up to the Civil War were fabulously rich ones for American literature—an “American Renaissance” in the words of literary scholar F. O. Matthiessen. During this era, some of the nation’s writers—notably Harriet Beecher Stowe, but also Henry David Thoreau and John Greenleaf Whittier— weighed in on the wedge that was driving North and South apart.
One American writer, Rebecca Harding, known today by her married name, Rebecca Harding Davis, had an intimate acquaintance with the war, and she did not have to leave home to acquire it. When the war began in 1861, she was living in the city of Wheeling, then still a part of Virginia. Wheeling lay in a border region, and people in this part of the country had an uncommon perspective on the conflict. Harding wrote, “We occupied the place of Hawthorne’s unfortunate man who saw both sides.”
As an author who lived with the Civil War at close hand, Rebecca Harding Davis not only “saw both sides” but also saw the sordidness of the war and of the men—and women—involved in it. This intimacy with the war naturally led to a great deal of knowledge about its incidents and participants, as well as some serious reflection about motivations and consequences. Davis covered the Civil War from the position of a reporter on the ground, one who saw the devastation as it occurred; but rather than cover the battles themselves, as newspapers were doing, she chose to explore the human stories behind and around the war
Stories of Today: Rebecca Harding Davis’ Investigative Fiction
No full textLong before her son, Richard Harding Davis, became a star reporter, Rebecca Harding Davis worked for the Wheeling Intelligencer in her home state of Virginia. Throughout a writing career that spanned ive decades and produced hundreds of stories, novels, and articles, she retained an interest in journalism. Beginning with an 1861 story, "Life in the Iron-Mills," she used fiction to report on current events. Later works, such as Put Out of the Way, an exposé of the system for institutionalizing the supposedly insane, and John Andross, a study of the effects of the Whiskey Ring on an individual, constituted a distinctive literary form: investigative fiction. Her work in this genre anticipated the major achievements of several other American writers, including Stephen Crane, Upton Sinclair, Truman Capote, and Tom Wolfe
La literatura popular de Rebecca Harding Davis
No full textEsta tesis doctoral contiene un estudio de la literatura de Rebecca Harding Davis, una escritora estadounidense del siglo XIX cuyo trabajo abarcó el periodismo, la novela, el relato y literatura juvenil. Rebecca Harding Davis se lanzó a la fama con la publicación de la novela corta, "Life in the Iron Mills" en Atlantic Monthly, la revista literaria de más prestigio en aquel periodo. Por este trabajo y por su implicación en proyectos de reforma social, se considera pionera del realismo norteamericano. Una escritora olvidada desde entonces, la escritora Tillie Olsen la redescubrió en 1972 publicando "Iron-Mills" en Feminist Press. Sus obras, que incluyen más de 19 novelas, mas de 175 relatos y más de 200 ensayos, vieron la luz todas en las revistas más importantes de los Estados Unidos entre 1861 y 1910.Este estudio analiza a fondo su corpus popular, principalmente las obras que Davis publicó en la revista Petersonś, la publicación periódica de más amplia circulación
Rebecca Harding Davis
No full text"Rebecca Harding Davis was at once emblematic of and ahead of her time. As a devoted wife and mother of three for whom home and family were central, she embodied an ideal of nineteenth-century middle-American womanhood. As a writer, she broke with the tradition of sentimental fiction expected from women writers of her day to pioneer the development of realism." ""Life in the Iron-Mills," which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1861 as Davis's first published work, predated Emile Zola's entry into realistic fiction by six years. It is perhaps the first American story to treat the industrial workplace, ghettoized poverty, and an immigrant subculture as the matter of America. In a career that spanned 50 years in which she wrote short fiction, serialized novels, essays, and children's stories, Davis exposed racism, political corruption, and the subjugation of women and led the way in developing psychologically complex female characters." "Despite this legacy, most scholars who have studied Davis's works in depth concur that she did not fulfill the promise shown in "Life in the Iron-Mills." To earn more money for her family, Davis eventually decided to favor quantity over quality. On the advice of her publisher she lightened her dark view of the human condition, and on the advice of her husband, a crusading journalist, she sometime advocated social causes in her fiction and was then criticized for being didactic. While she never abandoned her quest to write serious, honest fiction, her commitment was likely compromised under these influences.""Rather than lamenting these choices, in Rebecca Harding Davis Jane Atteridge Rose uses them to demonstrate the tenuous position of the woman writing in the nineteenth century. That Davis was able to make a respectable name for herself in her chosen profession at a time when rigorous intellectual pursuits were discouraged among women is remarkable. Rose's study is the first to weave into its analysis of Davis's work a sustained and detailed discussion of the author's life." ""The most distinctive feature of Rebecca Harding Davis's writing," Rose argues, "is its juxtaposition of antithetical values: vocation and family, egoism and self-denial, faith and cynicism, the material and the spiritual." While Davis's creative mediation of these opposing forces was conscious, there is also in her work evidence of an unconscious effort to reconcile the contradictions between the conventional choices she embraced in her personal life and the free-minded values she explored in her fiction. This effort may intrude on Davis's resolution of her works, Rose writes, but it also provokes fruitful analysis." "Rebecca Harding Davis is an effort to reclaim a place in America s social history and its literary canon for a writer whose life and work are instructive to both. Davis's writing, Rose concludes, "stands as an artifact of a pioneer critical realist who was also a typical nineteenth-century American woman."--BOOK JACKE
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No full textSigned at end: "Rebecca Harding Davis."Printed in two columns.Detached from: [Lippincott's] Vol. 16, no. 37(Nov. 1875).Caption title.Mode of access: Internet
Bye Bye Birdie (Harding Academy program)
No full textPerformed by Harding Academy on November 11-12, 2002.
Cast:Albert Peterson: Derek GloverRose Alvarez: Mia WinnHelen: Amanda BlansettUrsula Merkel: Elaine JonesKim McAfee: Lydia MooreMrs. Doris McAfee: Treece ThompsonMr. Harry McAfee: Alan McAdamsMrs. Mae Peterson: Alice-Anne MurrayConrad Birdie: Caleb KeeseHugo Peabody: Andy FryeReporters: Mandy Norris and Amanda PruittMayor: Curt SullivanMayor\u27s Wife: Cindy HoweMrs. Merkle: Meri HallRandolph McAfee: Kittrell CampNancy: Penny CronkGloria Rasputin: Andrea ThorntonSuzie: Jill RobertsonMr. Johnson: Daniel ChalenburgCharles Maude: Landon GanusCustomers: Jordan Huckeba, Marshall Sexson, and Kreg KellAlice: Laura BlountMargie: Laura RileyHarvey Johnson: Jerry LaFeversDeborah Sue: Sarah KeeseTrainman, Baggage Handler: A. J. McAdooFred: Randall BaberLee: Jake TribblePhyllis: Elizabeth HarrisonGirl: McKenna CampPenelope: Kellye AllenKarl: Kyle MooreSad Girls: Trenna Hoofman and Jena Landis Ed Sullivan Cameramen: Josh Brumfield and Chris Cochran Ed Sullivan Stage Manager: Justin Morse
Teens Ensemble: Natalia Burt, Rebecca Hatfield, Megan Hitt, Catelyn Horton, Brooke Ragsdale, Erica Seawel, Lara Anderson, Jessica Brown, Lauren Burkett, Kelsey Camp, Anna Justus, Anna Meadows, Jena Landis, Andrew Lemmons, Eric Isom, Kiehl Miers, Seth Neller, Seth Ogburn, and Jeffrey Williams
Adults Ensemble: Kathryn Churchman, Kim DeRamus, Joanna Lemmons, Brittney Niblock, Sarah Stegall, Jacob Garrison, Justin Morse, Leland Sheldon, Josh Brumfield, Chris Cochran, Alex Collier, Michael Kee, John Weber, and Grant Whitehttps://scholarworks.harding.edu/theatre-history/1248/thumbnail.jp
Nur-i-Afshan V.10 no.14 April 1906
No full textContents: Foreign telegrams [Letter] - Editorial notes - The Gospellers : heroic Itinerant who carried religion and civilization into the American wilderness by Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910
This volume of Nur-i-Afshan published weekly on Fridays from Ludhiana
NASA Day Special Report: An Interview with Dr. Edmond Wilson
No full textA special report on the brief history of the relationship of NASA, Harding, and Dr. Wilson culminating in NASA Day at Harding University
Chapel - April 24, 2019
No full textProgram: Senior Speeches Main Speaker: Rebecca Johnson and Tyler Mayo Song Leader: Logan Foshee Prayer led by: Brandon Gomez Devotional led by: Kyle Rap
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