03777oam 2200829I 450 991096610440332120250227222536.097866134605479781136674808113667480297812834605451283460548978113667481511366748109780203809341020380934310.4324/9780203809341(CKB)2670000000148583(EBL)728271(OCoLC)797918760(SSID)ssj0000677295(PQKBManifestationID)11390037(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000677295(PQKBWorkID)10693708(PQKB)11435361(Au-PeEL)EBL728271(CaPaEBR)ebr10533809(CaONFJC)MIL346054(OCoLC)782918735(MiAaPQ)EBC728271(EXLCZ)99267000000014858320180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDomesticity and design in American women's lives and literature Stowe, Alcott, Cather, and Wharton writing home /Caroline Chamberlin Hellman1st ed.New York :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (147 p.)Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ;6Description based upon print version of record.9781032930121 1032930128 9780415882729 0415882729 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 StatesHistoryAmerican 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-,1791323MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910966104403321Domesticity and design in American women's lives and literature4328587UNINA