A whole range of American writers have focused on images of household, domestic virtue, and the feminine or feminized hero. This important new book examines the persistence and flexibility of such themes in the work 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 enterprisea social and cultural reconstruction based on the domestic values of the ideal private household.
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A House Undivided: Domesticity and Community in American Literature
A whole range of American writers have focused on images of household, domestic virtue, and the feminine or feminized hero. This important new book examines the persistence and flexibility of such themes in the work 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 enterprisea social and cultural reconstruction based on the domestic values of the ideal private household.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780521107303 |
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Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Publication date: | 04/02/2009 |
Series: | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture , #38 |
Pages: | 252 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d) |
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