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The Art of Retreat examines the ideal of domestic retreat as it first emerges as a political and cultural fantasy in the early United States. Reconstructing a spectrum of alternative precedents to the familiar ideology of domesticity, this book upends our gendered narratives of nineteenth century literary culture.
List of contents
Introduction: Inventing Domestic Retreat
1. Charles Brockden Brown’s Domestic Scenes
2.
Salmagundi’s Elbow-Chair Domesticity
3. The Voice of Nature:
Hope Leslie and Early American Romanticism
4. Epicene Genius in Theodore Winthrop’s
Cecil Dreeme 5. Tracking Harriet E. Wilson’s Spiritualist Visions
Coda: #WFH
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
LAUREL V. HANKINS is an associate professor in the Department of English and Communication at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where she teaches courses on literary theory and early and nineteenth-century American literature. Her recent work can be found in journals such as
Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life and
Nineteenth-Century Literature and in the edited collection
The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art (Bucknell University Press).
