Extreme domesticity : a view from the margins /

Extreme domesticity : a view from the margins /

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"Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is just as likely to involve dislocation, economic insecurity, creative improvisation, and queered...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
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Main Author: Fraiman, Susan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Series:Gender and culture.
Subjects:
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Women and literature.
Domestic relations in literature.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Home in literature.
Electronic books.
Table of 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 homes : histories of dislocation in immigrant fiction
  • Domesticity in extremis : homemaking by the unsheltered
  • Conclusion : Dwelling-in-traveling, traveling-in-dwelling.

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