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Author:

Armbruster, Elif S.

Title:

Domestic biographies : Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at home / Elif S. Armbruster.

Publisher:

Peter Lang,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiv, 196 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Authors, American--Homes and haunts.
Home in literature.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher,--1811-1896--Homes and haunts.
Howells, William Dean,--1837-1920--Homes and haunts.
James, Henry,--1843-1916--Homes and haunts.
Wharton, Edith,--1862-1937--Homes and haunts.
Authors, American--19th century--Biography.
Authors in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

From romance to realism: new houses and new literature -- Harriet Beecher Stowe and the cost of the domesticity -- William Dean Howells: realism in transit -- Henry James: dwelling in the 'house of fiction' -- Edith Wharton: a 'beautiful construction' -- Where the houses stand today.

Summary:

Presents comparative domestic biographies of four American Realist writers: Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Drawing upon extensive primary sources to reconstruct the authors' private lives, Domestic Biographies illuminates how they lived when no one was looking. In particular this book examines how the authors worked and wrote at home and how their home life in turn made its way into their novels and non-fiction.

Series:

Studies on themes and motifs in literature ; v. 105

ISBN:

1433112248 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781433112249 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1433112493 (alk. paper)
9781433112492 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)656849352

LCCN:

2010032708

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)