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century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

find and rescue her. Early on, the reader is also introduced to Cap Huff, an adult friend of the Nason family, and Phoebe Marvin, ...

incredibly shallow, supercilious and caught within such a fierce atmosphere of competitiveness that they use the millions at the d...

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

scholarship addressing the character of Pearl have seen her as the "sin-child, the unholy result" of an adulterous love and a symb...

himself to be a benevolent master, and after his death, his wife Caldonia tries to uphold this legacy, the novel nevertheless show...

and supportive, as well as including the usual element of sexual attraction. The problem that Allie and Noah faced early on was ...

pain and trying to find herself as she divorces herself mentally from her poor beginnings when she was married at fifteen to a hor...

has absolutely certainty in his own value and the value of his "modern" ideas. However, by rejecting older, more traditional appro...

"Dead Mens Path." It seems at first glance to be a very straightforward tale. However, as one critic points out, "In the post-Fouc...

supervision of impoverished farm tenant Edward Covey, who had established a notorious reputation as being a "nigger breaker," youn...