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Author:

Fraiman, Susan, author.

Title:

Extreme domesticity : a view from the margins / Susan Fraiman.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xi, 260 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Women and literature.
Domestic relations in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Home in literature.
American literature.
American literature--Women authors.
Domestic relations in literature.
English literature.
English literature--Women authors.
Home in literature.
Women and literature.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Doing domesticity -- Shelter writing: desperate housekeeping from Crusoe to Queer Eye -- Behind the curtain: domestic industry in Mary Barton -- Domesticity beyond sentiment: Edith Wharton, decoration, and divorce -- Bad girls of good housekeeping: Dominique Browning and Martha Stewart -- Undocumented houses: histories of dislocation in immigrant fiction -- Domesticity in extremis: homemaking by the unsheltered -- Conclusion: Dwelling-in-traveling, traveling-in-dwelling.

Series:

Gender and culture

ISBN:

0231166346
9780231166348

OCLC:

(OCoLC)950447815

LCCN:

2016022755

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)