A House Undivided: Domesticity and Community in American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 38)

A House Undivided: Domesticity and Community in American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 38) image
ISBN-10:

0521382874

ISBN-13:

9780521382878

Author(s): Anderson,Douglas
Edition: First Edition
Released: Feb 23, 1990
Format: Hardcover, 250 pages
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Description:

A whole range of American writers have focused on images of household, domestic virtue, and the feminine or feminized hero. This important new book examines the persistence and flexibility of such themes in the work of classic writers from Ann Bradstreet through Jefferson and Franklin to Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. Without minimizing the differences that divide these figures, Anderson shows the extent to which, in their various circumstances, they were all committed to a common enterprise--a social and cultural reconstruction based on the domestic values of the ideal private household.


























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