Playing house in the American West western women's life narratives, 1839-1987 / Cathryn Halverson.

Other author Halverson, Cathryn.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoTuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2013]
Descriptionxii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Women and literature--West (U.S.).
Autobiography--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Domestic space in literature.
Women authors, American--West (U.S.).
Women in literature.
West (U.S.)--In literature.

Contents Playing house on the frontier: Caroline Kirkland and Louise Clappe -- "Your ex-washlady": Elinore Pruitt Stewart, the woman homesteader of Wyoming -- "Straight-made in nothing": Mary MacLane and domestic ritual -- Girls of the limberlost: Gene Stratton-Porter and Opal Whiteley -- "Wind and sun are good housekeepers": the domestic narratives of Mary Austin and Zitkala-Sa -- Camps, caves, and attics: playing house in Willa Cather's western novels -- My Great, Wide, Beautiful World: home writing as travel writing -- Eating in, eating out, and eating al Otro Lado: M. F. K. Fisher's The Gastronomical Me -- Searching for home: Jean Stafford's west -- The once and future home: Housekeeping and Anywhere but Here -- "I am going to 'play like' you have come".
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013001996
ISBN9780817318031 (trade cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0817318038 (trade cloth : alk. paper)

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