Stirring the pot : the kitchen and domesticity in the fiction of southern women /
Patterson, Laura Sloan,1974-
Jefferson, N.C. ; London : McFarland & Co.,
c2008.
"This work looks closely at a wide variety of Southern domestic literature, focusing particularly on the role of the family kitchen as a driving force in the narratives of Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lee Smith, and Toni Morrison"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-223) and index.
From courtship to kitchen. Radical domesticity in twentieth-century southern women's fiction -- Ellen Glasgow's "sacred inner circle" of domestic isolation -- Sexing the domestic. Eudora Welty's Delta wedding and the sexology movement -- Trains, letters, and pickled peppers. Lee Smith and the effect of railway unification on Appalachian domesticity -- "No place like and no place but home". Domestic resistance in Toni Morrison's Paradise, Jazz, and Love -- Betty Crocker, Betty Friedan, and the techno-southern belles. Reading the online kitchen.
"This work looks closely at a wide variety of Southern domestic literature, focusing particularly on the role of the family kitchen as a driving force in the narratives of Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lee Smith, and Toni Morrison"--Provided by publisher.
Domestic fiction, American
American fiction
American fiction
American fiction
Feminist fiction, American
Domestic relations in literature.
Kitchens in literature.
Home in literature.
Women in literature.