Domestic Individualism - Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America

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Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

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

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Gillian Brown, Brown Gillian
• Collaboration: Gillian Brown (Editeur)
• Edition: University Of California Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.09.1992
• EAN: 9780520080997
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08099-7
• Pages: 284
• Thèmes: New Historicism; The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics; New Historicism
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Psychologie, ésotérique, spiritualité, anthroposophie > Psychologie appliquée; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; 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