Domesticity and design in American women's lives and literature
Subtitle: Stowe, Alcott, Cather, and Wharton writing home
By: CarolineChamberlin Hellman
Series: Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature -- 6
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9780415882729
Subjects: American Women authors; Personal space in literature; History and criticism; American literature; Domestic Architecture; Homes and haunts; Women authors; Women and literature; Home in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-126) and index.
Table of contents: title: Frocks and aprons or geographies: Harriet Beecher Stowe's reconception of domesticity; title: A house multiplied: Louisa May Alcott's material feminism; title: Mad[persons] in [assorted] attic[s]: Willa Cather's domestication of discontent; title: War on the interior: Edith Wharton's cabinet war rooms in the house of the homeless.