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UNINA9910461549403321 |
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Autore |
Hellman Caroline <1979-, > |
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Titolo |
Domesticity and design in American women's lives and literature : Stowe, Alcott, Cather, and Wharton writing home / / Caroline Chamberlin Hellman |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-46054-8 |
9786613460547 |
1-136-67481-0 |
0-203-80934-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (147 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; ; 6 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - Women authors - History and criticism |
Home in literature |
Women authors, American - Homes and haunts |
Women and literature - United States - History |
Personal space in literature |
Architecture, Domestic - United States - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Domesticity and Design in American Women's Lives and Literature; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Frocks, Aprons, and Geographies: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Reconception of Domesticity; 2. A House Multiplied: Louisa May Alcott's Material Feminism; 3. Madpersons in Assorted Attics: Willa Cather's Domestication of Discontent; 4. War on the Interior: Edith Wharton's Cabinet War Rooms in the House of the Homeless; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Domesticity and Design in American Women's Lives and Literature explores the ways in which four American women writers from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century inhabited domestic space and portrayed it in their work. Hellman explores independent female |
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