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245 10 a| Domestic Individualismh| [electronic resource]:b| Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America;

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440 4 a| The New Historicism Ser.p| Studies in Cultural Poeticsv| No. 14;

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520 8 a| Annotationb| 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.<br />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.;

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Domestic Individualism Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America

Author/creator	Brown, Gillian Author
Other author	Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864 Contribution by
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Berkeley : University of California Press
Description	280 p. ill 22.800 x 015.100 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects	United States--Social Conditions. --To 1865. United States--Social Conditions. --1865-1945.

Series	The New Historicism Ser. Studies in Cultural Poetics No. 14
Summary	Annotation 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.<br />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.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	90011143
ISBN	9780520080997
ISBN	0520080998 (Trade Paper) Active Record
Standard identifier#	9780520080997
Stock number	00027125

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