St. Elmo: Or, Saved at LastSt. Elmo was the most famed and beloved novel by Augusta Jane Evans, a June 2015 inductee into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. First published in 1866, Evans’s rich tale of the relationship between the dashing and worldly St. Elmo and Edna Earl, an exemplar of virtuous Southern womanhood, sold over a million copies in four months and became one of the nineteenth century’s most influential novels. This edition includes an introduction by Evans scholar Diane Roberts about the enduring relevance and legacy of St. Elmo as a work of literature as well as a reflection of gender roles and the seismic societal changes taking place in the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War. |
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Page ix
... women . " 16 She said next to nothing about the best - selling novelists of the 1840s and 1850s , Susan Warner , Maria Cummins , E. D. E. N. Southworth , and Harriet Beecher Stowe . Evans was fiercely pro - slavery and pro - South , so ...
... women . " 16 She said next to nothing about the best - selling novelists of the 1840s and 1850s , Susan Warner , Maria Cummins , E. D. E. N. Southworth , and Harriet Beecher Stowe . Evans was fiercely pro - slavery and pro - South , so ...
Page xi
... women had reached a point where they were handed everything a woman could dream of possessing with one single exception - their ' Rights . ' " 26 This sounds anachronistic , more appropriate to the 1950s when women were supposed to be ...
... women had reached a point where they were handed everything a woman could dream of possessing with one single exception - their ' Rights . ' " 26 This sounds anachronistic , more appropriate to the 1950s when women were supposed to be ...
Page xv
... women's reproductive capac- ity : " sacred womanhood " must in no way be diverted from her true function . In insisting on both " True Womanliness " and intellectual stardom , Evans takes a bold stand for education for women , though ...
... women's reproductive capac- ity : " sacred womanhood " must in no way be diverted from her true function . In insisting on both " True Womanliness " and intellectual stardom , Evans takes a bold stand for education for women , though ...
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