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Author:

Patterson, Laura Sloan, 1974-

Title:

Stirring the pot : the kitchen and domesticity in the fiction of southern women / Laura Sloan Patterson.

Publisher:

McFarland & Co.,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

ix, 230 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Domestic fiction, American--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Feminist fiction, American--History and criticism.
Domestic relations in literature.
Kitchens in literature.
Home in literature.
Women in literature.
Southern States--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-223) and index.

Contents:

From courtship to kitchen -- Radical domesticity in twentieth-century southern women's fiction -- Ellen Glasgow's "sacred inner circle" of domestic isolation -- Sexing the domestic -- Eudora Welty's Delta wedding and the sexology movement -- Trains, letters, and pickled peppers -- Lee Smith and the effect of railway unification on Appalachian domesticity -- "No place like and no place but home" -- Domestic resistance in Toni Morrison's Paradise, Jazz, and Love -- Betty Crocker, Betty Friedan, and the techno-southern belles -- Reading the online kitchen.

Summary:

"This work looks closely at a wide variety of Southern domestic literature, focusing particularly on the role of the family kitchen as a driving force in the narratives of Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lee Smith, and Toni Morrison"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0786435232 (softcover : alk. paper)
9780786435234 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008029316

Locations:

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

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)