Introduction: Female Regionalist Writing and Aeconomia -- Plots of Polity in Late Nineteenth-Century US Popular Economic Discourses -- Fabulist Plots of Polity in Freeman's The Revolt of Mother and A Mistaken Charity -- Supposing an Island: Political Economic Topographies in Stowe and Jewett -- The Kitchen Economics of Green Island in Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs -- Talking Turkey: The Political Economy of Thanksgiving in Cooke and Stowe -- Reconstructing the Fruit Sublime in Dunbar-Nelson's Mr. Baptiste: Barter and the Political Economy of the Tropical Fruit Trade -- Economics Gingerbread Style: Toward a Model Political Economy of the Kitchen.
Summary:
"An analysis of how nineteenth-century women regional writers represent political economic thought"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Studies in American literary realism and naturalism
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