| A House Undivided: Domesticity and Community in American Literature Contributor(s): Anderson, Douglas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521382874 ISBN-13: 9780521382878 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 810.935 |
| LCCN: 89048373 |
| Series: American Novel (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.4" W x 9" (1.15 lbs) 250 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |