Domestic individualism : imagining self in nineteenth-century America /
Gillian Brown's book probes the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in nineteenth-century America. Arguing that domesticity institutes gender, class, and racial distinctions that govern masculine as well as feminine identity, Brown brilliantly alters, for lit...
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Imagining self in nineteenth-century America
Frontmatter --
Contents --
Illustrations --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
Part One. Stowe's Domestic Reformations --
Chapter One. Domestic Politics in Uncle Tom's Cabin --
Chapter Two. Sentimental Possession --
Part Two. Hawthorne's Gothic Revival --
Chapter Three.Women's Work and Bodies in The House of the Seven Gables --
Chapter Four. The Mesmerized Spectator --
Part Three. Melville's Misanthropy --
Chapter Five. Anti-sentimentalism and Authorship in Pierre --
Chapter Six. The Empire of Agoraphobia --
Afterword --
Notes --
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- Elektronisch E-Book
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- Englisch
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c1990.
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Gillian Brown's book probes the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in nineteenth-century America. Arguing that domesticity institutes gender, class, and racial distinctions that govern masculine as well as feminine identity, Brown brilliantly alters, for literary critics, feminists, and cultural historians, the critical perspective from which nineteenth-century American literature and culture have been viewed.In this study of the domestic constitution of individualism, Brown traces how the values of interiority, order, privacy, and enclosure associated with the American home come to define selfhood in general. By analyzing writings by Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, Fern, and Gilman, and by examining other contemporary cultural modes-abolitionism, consumerism, architecture, interior decorating, motherhood, mesmerism, hysteria, and agoraphobia-she reconfigures the parameters of both domesticity and the patterns of self it fashions. Unfolding a representational history of the domestic, Brown's work offers striking new readings of the literary texts as well as of the cultural contexts that they embody.
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1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages ) : illustrations.
Issued also in print. - Anmerkungen:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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- Includes bibliographical references (pges 203-249) and index.
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9780520913356
0520913353
9780585192635
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