Janet Floyd is senior lecturer in American Studies at King's College, London. She is also the author of Writing the Pioneer Woman and the co-editor of Domestic Space: Reading the Nineteenth-Century Interior, The Recipe Reader: Narratives, Contexts, Traditions and Becoming Visible: Women's Presence in Nineteenth-Century America.
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Its brisk, readable prose and compelling excerpts offer an engaging read from cover to cover. Most provocatively, Claims and Speculations also makes a case for dethroning realism and naturalism as the favored literary expressions of an industrializing, international economy in the late nineteenth century.--Journal of American Studies