03566oam 2200733I 450 991046154940332120200520144314.01-283-46054-897866134605471-136-67481-00-203-80934-310.4324/9780203809341 (CKB)2670000000148583(EBL)728271(OCoLC)797918760(SSID)ssj0000677295(PQKBManifestationID)11390037(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000677295(PQKBWorkID)10693708(PQKB)11435361(MiAaPQ)EBC728271(Au-PeEL)EBL728271(CaPaEBR)ebr10533809(CaONFJC)MIL346054(OCoLC)782918735(EXLCZ)99267000000014858320180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDomesticity and design in American women's lives and literature Stowe, Alcott, Cather, and Wharton writing home /Caroline Chamberlin HellmanNew York :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (147 p.)Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ;6Description based upon print version of record.0-415-88272-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexDomesticity 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 strikinglRoutledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ;6.American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismHome in literatureWomen authors, AmericanHomes and hauntsWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistoryPersonal space in literatureArchitecture, DomesticUnited StatesHistoryElectronic books.American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Home in literature.Women authors, AmericanHomes and haunts.Women and literatureHistory.Personal space in literature.Architecture, DomesticHistory.813.009/3564Hellman Caroline1979-,933410MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461549403321Domesticity and design in American women's lives and literature2101269UNINA