Recommended: Helen Hunt Jackson

1982 ◽  
Vol 71 (8) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Millen Ellis
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

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

Literature of the New Year: Literary Variations on the Celebration of the New Year

IJOHMN ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Jalal Uddin Khan
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Emily Dickinson ◽  
Sylvia Plath ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
British Government ◽  
Helen Hunt Jackson ◽  
Rabindranath Tagore ◽  
Look Back ◽  
William Cullen ◽  
Academic Year

Is the New Year really new or old? Happy or sad? Is it only part of the process and the cycle of seasons making one look back and think of death? Is it a time to wish to stay where one is or hope for opportunities and possibilities? Like a point in a circle, is every day a New Year’s day? Is it a time for nostalgia and reminiscence or promises and resolutions for the future? With the (Gregorian and the British Government) changes in the Western calendar at different times in history and with different countries/cultures celebrating the New Year at different times of the year and with the fiscal year, political (election) year, and academic year being different from the traditional New Year of January 1st, does the New Year mark the beginning and the ending in just an arbitrary way? Centuries ago Britain’s earliest Poets Laureate introduced the tradition of writing a New Year poem. Since then there have been many authors writing New Year essays and poems. They include Robert Herrick, Charles Cotton, Johann Von Goethe, S. T. Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Lord Alfred Tennyson, William Cullen Bryant, Helen Hunt Jackson, Emily Dickinson, George Curtis, Thomas Hardy, Fiona Macleod (William Sharp), D. H. Lawrence, Rabindranath Tagore, and Sylvia Plath, among others.

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