Publishing the Family

"An engaging and ambitious work of great importance. Howard's discussion may radically reconfigure the terms of discussion for nineteenth-century conceptions of gender roles. Valuable not only for its impressive scholarship but also for its originality and insight, "Publishing the Family" is sure to occupy a prominent place in American literary and cultural studies."--Emory Elliott, author of "Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age"

List of contents

List of Illustrations/ Acknowledgments xiii

1. A Strangely Exciting Story 13

2. The Hearthstone at Harper's 58

3. Making the Family Whole 106

4. The Sometimes-New Woman 158

5. What is Sentimentality 213

6. Closing the Book 257

Appendix I. Contents and Characters of the WHole Family 283

Appendix 2. The Generations of the Family 284

Notes 331

About the author

June Howard is Professor of English, American Culture, and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan.

Summary

Presents the study of the serial novel The Whole Family. This title uses this project it as a lens through which to examine turn-of-the-century American publishing, gender relations, narrative forms, and ideas of the individual, the family, and the public and intimate spheres.

Product details

• Authors: Howard, June Howard, June Howard
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2001
• EAN: 9780822327622
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2762-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Weight: 1012 g
• Illustrations: 63 (54 b&w, 9 color)
• Series: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Englisch, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Zwischen den Weltkriegen (1919 bis 1939 n. Chr.), Kulturwissenschaften, 1900 bis 1909 n. Chr., 1910 bis 1919 n. Chr., Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Soziologie: Familie und Beziehungen, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren