House Undivided Domesticity and Community in American Literature

Klappentext A whole range of major American writers have focused on images of the household! of domestic virtue! and the feminine or feminized hero. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. 'This great household upon the Earth'; 2. 'To be great and domestic'; 3. Azads in Concord; 4. Hawthorne's marriages; 5. Melville, Whitman, and the predicament of intimacy; 6. Literary archaeology and The Portrait of a Lady; 7. Emily Dickinson's adequate Eve; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Anderson, Anderson Douglas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 02.04.2009
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9780521107303
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10730-3
• Pages: 252
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American > 38; Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
• Subjects: USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000