Domesticity and design in American women's lives and literature : Stowe, Alcott, Cather, and Wharton writing home / / Caroline Chamberlin Hellman
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| Autore: |
Hellman Caroline <1979-, >
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| Titolo: |
Domesticity and design in American women's lives and literature : Stowe, Alcott, Cather, and Wharton writing home / / Caroline Chamberlin Hellman
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (147 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813.009/3564 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Domesticity and design in American women's lives and literature |
| ISBN: | 1-136-67480-2 |
| 1-283-46054-8 | |
| 9786613460547 | |
| 1-136-67481-0 | |
| 0-203-80934-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790448403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; ; 6.