Doing Good and Making Trouble: A Look at Helen Hunt Jackson

Ploughshares ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 188-196
Author(s):  
Lisa Mullenneaux
Keyword(s):  
Helen Hunt Jackson

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson

Hispania ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 641-642
Author(s):  
Ada Ortúzar-Young
Keyword(s):  
Helen Hunt Jackson

Recommended: Helen Hunt Jackson

1982 ◽  
Vol 71 (8) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Millen Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Helen Hunt Jackson

Helen Hunt Jackson (H. H.).

1939 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 305
Author(s):  
Lyon N. Richardson ◽  
Ruth Odell
Keyword(s):  
Helen Hunt Jackson

Legal Realisms

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Holbo
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fourteenth Amendment ◽  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Helen Hunt Jackson ◽  
American Novel ◽  
The Law ◽  
American Society

U.S. historians have long considered the Civil War and its Reconstruction as a second American revolution. Literary scholars, however, have yet to show how fully these years revolutionized the American imagination. One marker of this was the postwar search for a “Great American Novel”—a novel fully adequate to the breadth and diversity of the United States in the era of the Fourteenth Amendment. The debate over what full representation would mean led to a thoroughgoing reconstruction of the meaning of “literature” for readers, writers, politics, and law. Legal Realisms examines the transformation of the idea of “realism” in literature and beyond in the face of uneven developments in the racial, ethnic, gender, and class structure of American society. The ideal of equality before the law conflicted with persistent inequality, and it was called into question by changing ideas about accurate representation and the value of cultural difference within the visual arts, philosophy, law, and political and moral theory. Offering provocative new readings of Mark Twain, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Helen Hunt Jackson, Albion Tourgée, and others, Legal Realisms follows the novel through the worlds of California Native American removal and the Reconstruction-era South, of the Mississippi valley and the urban Northeast. It shows how incomplete emancipation haunted the celebratory pursuit of a literature of national equality and explores the way novelists’ representation of the difficulty of achieving equality before the law helped Americans articulate the need for a more robust concept of society.

Helen Hunt Jackson: A Literary Life by Kate Phillips

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-464
Author(s):  
Wendy Witherspoon
Keyword(s):  
Helen Hunt Jackson ◽  
Literary Life
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