A MODERN INSTANCE (American Classics Series)

Published in 1882, A Modern Instance is a pioneering work of American realism that examines the disintegration of a marriage within a rapidly changing, post-Civil War society. Through the troubled relationship of Marcia Hubbard and Bartley Hubbard, and the surrounding perspectives of figures such as Basil March, William Dean Howells explores divorce, journalism, gender expectations, social mobilit...