Title: Raising the dust
Description: "Raising the Dust identifies a heretofore-overlooked literary phenomenon that author Beth Sutton-Ramspeck calls "literary housekeeping." The three writers she examines rejected turn-of-the-century aestheticism and modernism in favor of a literature that is practical, even ostensibly mundane, designed to "set the human household in order."" "To Mary Augusta Ward, Sarah Grand, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, housekeeping represented public responsibilities: making the food supply safe, cleaning up politics, and improving the human family." "Raising the Dust places their writing in the context of the late-Victorian era, examining in particular the eugenics movement, the proliferation of household conveniences, the home economics movement, and decreased reliance on servants. These changes affected relationships between the domestic sphere and the public sphere, and hence shaped the portrayal of domesticity in the era's fiction and nonfiction."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: American Domestic fiction, Criticism and interpretation, English Domestic fiction, English fiction, History and criticism, Home in literature, Housekeeping in literature, Housewives in literature, Mothers in literature, Women and literature, Women authors, Women in literature, Écrits de femmes anglais, Foyer dans la littérature, Critique et interprétation, Travail domestique dans la littérature, Femmes au foyer dans la littérature, Amerikaans, Letterkunde, Femmes dans la littérature, Histoire et critique, Roman anglais, Engels, Sekserol, Roman familial anglais, Femmes et littérature, Roman familial américain, Mères dans la littérature, Gilman, charlotte perkins, 1860-1935, Domestic fiction, history and criticism, English fiction, history and criticism
Places: English-speaking countries
People: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935), Humphry Ward Mrs. (1851-1920), Sarah Grand