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.
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