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A House Undivided: Domesticity and Community in American Literature

A House Undivided: Domesticity and Community in American Literature

Anderson, Douglas
Gelpi, Albert
Posnock, Ross

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 38

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521382874
ISBN13: 9780521382878
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 23 1990
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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