Life in the Iron Mills Rebecca Harding Davis

The late 1800’s marked a shift in the views of life from a religious outlook to a secular outlook. Many scholars were turning their attention to financial and political force in their attempts to explain the world. For example, Karl Marx theorized...

In an effort to shed light on the horrid realities surrounding industrialization and capitalism in America during the 1800s, Rebecca Harding Davis wrote a brilliantly realistic prose that captured the tragically enlightening story of a Welsh...

The 19th century was a time of great development, especially so in the realm of knowledge and representation of disability in literature. Although physical disabilities receive the majority of the attention, mental illness does appear in many...