Harold Frederic
Harold Frederic combined realism and regionalism in fiction set in upstate New York, culminating in The Damnation of Theron Ware, a landmark novel of religious doubt and social ambition. His premature death cut short a major career.
Works
- The Damnation of Theron WareNovel of a Methodist minister's moral decline through intellectual and sensual temptation
- Seth's Brother's WifeNovel of rural passion and infidelity in upstate New York
- In the ValleyHistorical novel of the Valley of New York during the American Revolution
- The CopperheadCivil War novel of a Northern sympathizer living in the Confederate South
- Gloria MundiNovel of a woman's ambition and social climbing in gilded age New York