Dr. Richmond B. Adams holds a Ph.D. in American literature from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and currently teaches as an Instructor of English at Eastern Oklahoma State College.
2013 0-7734-4530-7 The books written by Harold Frederic depict a self-made, properly Protestant American. Yet, in some of his books in particular The Damnation of Theron Ware, Frederic depicts self-made women, and challenges the idea that only men can attain culturally-defined success. The works offer an inversion of late 19th century gender-based expectations.