Elizabeth Stoddard & the Boundaries of Bourgeois Culture

Elizabeth Stoddard and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Culture traces Stoddard''s emergence as a writer in the 1850s, her conflict-ridden relationships with the writers associated with the genteel tradition, and her efforts to negotiate the boundaries of Victorian culture in the United States. While in many ways a critic of nineteenth-century bourgeois culture, Stoddard remained in other ways an adhe...