1st Edition
Domesticity and Design in American Women's Lives and Literature Stowe, Alcott, Cather, and Wharton Writing Home
By Caroline Hellman
Copyright 2011
146 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
146 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
146 Pages
18 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction 1. Frocks and Aprons or Geographies: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Reconception of Domesticity 2. A House Multiplied: Louisa May Alcott's Material Feminism 3. Mad [persons] in [Assorted] Attic[s]: Willa Cather's Domestication of Discontent 4. War on the Interior: Edith Wharton's Cabinet War Rooms in the House of the Homeless 5. Conclusion
Biography
Caroline Hellman is an Assistant Professor of English at New York City College of Technology, CUNY, where she teaches writing and literature. She is the recipient of a 2010-2011 Fulbright Award in American Literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
