Stirring the pot
Subtitle: views of the kitchen and domesticity in the fiction of southern women
By: Laura Sloan Patterson.
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780786435234
Subjects: Domestic fiction, American -- History and criticism; American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American fiction -- Southern States -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Feminist fiction, American -- History and criticism; Domestic relations in literature; Kitchens in literature; Home in literature; Women in literature; Southern States -- In literature
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From courtship to kitchen. Radical domesticity in twentieth-century southern women's fiction; title: Ellen Glasgow's "sacred inner circle" of domestic isolation; title: Sexing the domestic. Eudora Welty's Delta wedding and the sexology movement; title: Trains, letters, and pickled peppers. Lee Smith and the effect of railway unification on Appalachian domesticity; title: "No place like and no place but home". Domestic resistance in Toni Morrison's Paradise, Jazz, and Love; title: Betty Crocker, Betty Friedan, and the techno-southern belles; title: Reading the online kitchen.