LEADER 03619nam 22006731 450 001 9910463271903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8173-8686-6 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060500 035 $a(EBL)1481319 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001041241 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11577157 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001041241 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11009613 035 $a(PQKB)11653815 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1481319 035 $a(OCoLC)861200418 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25338 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1481319 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10790368 035 $a(OCoLC)861559281 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060500 100 $a20131021h20132013 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aPlaying house in the American West $ewestern women's life narratives, 1839-1987 /$f[edited by] Cathryn Halverson 210 1$aTuscaloosa :$cThe University of Alabama Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-1803-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Novels 327 $aChapter 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; Index 330 $aExamining 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 to 606 $aAutobiography$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDomestic space in literature 606 $aWomen and literature$zWest (U.S.) 606 $aWomen authors, American$zWest (U.S.) 606 $aWomen in literature 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xIn literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAutobiography$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDomestic space in literature. 615 0$aWomen and literature 615 0$aWomen authors, American 615 0$aWomen in literature. 676 $a810.9/9287 701 $aHalverson$b Cathryn$0624728 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463271903321 996 $aPlaying house in the American West$92472141 997 $aUNINA