03619nam 22006731 450 991046327190332120200520144314.00-8173-8686-6(CKB)3170000000060500(EBL)1481319(SSID)ssj0001041241(PQKBManifestationID)11577157(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001041241(PQKBWorkID)11009613(PQKB)11653815(MiAaPQ)EBC1481319(OCoLC)861200418(MdBmJHUP)muse25338(Au-PeEL)EBL1481319(CaPaEBR)ebr10790368(OCoLC)861559281(EXLCZ)99317000000006050020131021h20132013 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPlaying house in the American West western women's life narratives, 1839-1987 /[edited by] Cathryn HalversonTuscaloosa :The University of Alabama Press,[2013]©20131 online resource (264 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8173-1803-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Playing House on the Froniter - Caroline Kirkland and Louise Clappe; Chapter 2. ""Your Ex-Washlady"" : Elinore Pruitt Stewart, the Woman Homesteader of Wyoming; Chapter 3. ""Straight-Made in Nothing"" : Mary MacLane and Domestic Ritual; Chapter 4. Girls of the Limberlost : Gene Stratton-Porter and Opal Whiteley; Chapter 5. ""Wind and Sun Are Good Housekeepers"" : The Domestic Narratives of Mary Austin and Zitkala-Sa; Chapter 6. Camps, Caves, and Attics: Playing House in Willa Cather's Western NovelsChapter 7. My Great, Wide, Beautiful World: Home Writing as Travel WritingChapter 8. Eating in, Eating Out, and Eating al Otro Lado: M.F.K. Fisher's The Gastronomical Me; Chapter 9. Searching for Home: Jean Stafford's West; Chapter 10. The Once and Future Home: Housekeeping and Anywhere but Here; Conclusion. ""I Am Going to 'Play Like' You Have Come""; Notes; Works Cited; IndexExamining an eclectic group of western women's autobiographical texts-canonical and otherwise-Playing House in the American West argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterized by strategic representations of unconventional domestic life. The controlling metaphor Cathryn Halverson uses in her engrossing study is "playing house." From Caroline Kirkland and Laura Ingalls Wilder to Willa Cather and Marilynne Robinson, from the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries, western authors have persistently embraced wayward or eccentric housekeeping toAutobiographyWomen authorsHistory and criticismDomestic space in literatureWomen and literatureWest (U.S.)Women authors, AmericanWest (U.S.)Women in literatureWest (U.S.)In literatureElectronic books.AutobiographyWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Domestic space in literature.Women and literatureWomen authors, AmericanWomen in literature.810.9/9287Halverson Cathryn624728MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463271903321Playing house in the American West2472141UNINA