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A HOUSE UNDIVIDED
DOMESTICITY AND COMMUNITY IN AMERICAN LITERATURE |
By: |
Douglas Anderson, Albert Gelpi, Ross Posnock |
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ISBN 10: |
0521382874 |
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9780521382878 |
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Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
23 February, 1990 |
Series: |
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture 38 |
Pages: |
250 |
Description: |
This 1990 book examines the themes of the household, of domestic virtue, and the feminine or feminized hero in American literature. |
Synopsis: |
A whole range of major American writers have focused on images of the household, of domestic virtue, and the feminine or feminized hero. This important 1990 book examines the persistence and flexibility of such themes in the work of a tradition of classic writers from Ann Bradstreet through Jefferson and Franklin to Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Without minimizing the differences that divide these figures, Anderson shows the extent to which, in their various circumstances, they were all committed to a common enterprise - a social and cultural reconstruction based on the domestic values of the ideal private household. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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