Domestic Individualism - Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America

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List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part One: Stowe's Domestit Reformations
1. Domestic Politics in Uncle Tom's Cabin
2. Sentimental Possession

Part Two: Hawthorne's Gothic Revival
3. Women's Work and Bodies in The House of the Seven Gahfrs
4. The Mesmerized Spectator

Part Three: Melville's Misanthropy
5. Anti-sentimentalism and Authorship in Pierre
6. The Empire of Agoraphobia

Afterword
Notes
Index

About the author

Gillian Brown is Associate Professor of English at the University of Utah.

Summary

Explores the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in 19th-century America. Arguing that domesticity not only presumes but institutes distinctions of gender, class and race, Brown reveals how these distinctions in turn inform identity.

Product details

• Authors: Gillian Brown, Brown Gillian
• Assisted by: Gillian Brown (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.1992
• EAN: 9780520080997
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08099-7
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: New Historicism; The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics; New Historicism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, The self, ego, identity, personality, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, United States of America, USA, Gender studies, gender groups