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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461549403321

Autore

Hellman Caroline <1979-, >

Titolo

Domesticity and design in American women's lives and literature : Stowe, Alcott, Cather, and Wharton writing home / / Caroline Chamberlin Hellman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-46054-8

9786613460547

1-136-67481-0

0-203-80934-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (147 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; ; 6

Disciplina

813.009/3564

Soggetti

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.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



authors who had intriguing and autonomous relationships with home, relocating frequently either to begin the creative processes of designing and decorating anew or to avoid domestic obligation altogether by remaining in transit. She also looks at how women authors wrote female characters into existence who had strikingl