Domestic Individualism by Gillian Brown
Gillian Brown's book probes the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in nineteenth-century America. Arguing that domesticity institutes gender, class, and racial distinctions that govern masculine as well as feminine identity, Brown brilliantly alters, for literary critics, feminists, and cultural historians, the critical perspective from which nineteenth-century American literature and culture have been viewed. In this study of the domestic constitution of individualism, Brown traces how the values of interiority, order, privacy, and enclosure associated with the American home come to define selfhood in general. By analyzing writings by Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, Fern, and Gilman, and by examining other contemporary cultural modes--abolitionism, consumerism, architecture, interior decorating, motherhood, mesmerism, hysteria, and agoraphobia--she reconfigures the parameters of both domesticity and the patterns of self it fashions. Unfolding a representational history of the domestic, Brown's work offers striking new readings of the literary texts as well as of the cultural contexts that they embody.-
Holy Feast and Holy Fast
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The Mirror of Herodotus
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Resistant Structures
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An Empire Nowhere
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Writing and Rebellion
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Carnal Israel
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The Widening Gate
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Roads to Rome
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Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380-1530
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The Rites of Knighthood
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Rabelais's Carnival
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Behind the Scenes
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Mexico at the World's Fairs
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Inscribing the Time
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Loyola's Acts
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The Imaginary Puritan
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Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers
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Another Kind of Love
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The Eloquence of Color
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Dilemmas of Enlightenment
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Trials of Authorship
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The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism
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The Renaissance Bible
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Dearest Beloved
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Romancing the Past
Gillian Brown is Associate Professor of English at the University of Utah.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520080997 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520080998 |
| Title | Domestic Individualism |
| Author | Gillian Brown |
| Series | The New Historicism: Studies In Cultural Poetics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 1992-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 284 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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