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Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics) (Volume 14)

Gillian D. Brown

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Description:Gillian Brown's book probes the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in nineteenth-century America. Arguing that domesticity institutes gender, class, and racial distinctions that govern masculine as well as feminine identity, Brown brilliantly alters, for literary critics, feminists, and cultural historians, the critical perspective from which nineteenth-century American literature and culture have been viewed.In this study of the domestic constitution of individualism, Brown traces how the values of interiority, order, privacy, and enclosure associated with the American home come to define selfhood in general. By analyzing writings by Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, Fern, and Gilman, and by examining other contemporary cultural modes--abolitionism, consumerism, architecture, interior decorating, motherhood, mesmerism, hysteria, and agoraphobia--she reconfigures the parameters of both domesticity and the patterns of self it fashions. Unfolding a representational history of the domestic, Brown's work offers striking new readings of the literary texts as well as of the cultural contexts that they embody.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics) (Volume 14). To get started finding Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics) (Volume 14), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Gillian Brown's book probes the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in nineteenth-century America. Arguing that domesticity institutes gender, class, and racial distinctions that govern masculine as well as feminine identity, Brown brilliantly alters, for literary critics, feminists, and cultural historians, the critical perspective from which nineteenth-century American literature and culture have been viewed.In this study of the domestic constitution of individualism, Brown traces how the values of interiority, order, privacy, and enclosure associated with the American home come to define selfhood in general. By analyzing writings by Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, Fern, and Gilman, and by examining other contemporary cultural modes--abolitionism, consumerism, architecture, interior decorating, motherhood, mesmerism, hysteria, and agoraphobia--she reconfigures the parameters of both domesticity and the patterns of self it fashions. Unfolding a representational history of the domestic, Brown's work offers striking new readings of the literary texts as well as of the cultural contexts that they embody.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics) (Volume 14). To get started finding Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics) (Volume 14), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics) (Volume 14)

Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics) (Volume 14)

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