Stirring the pot : the kitchen and domesticity in the fiction of southern women /

"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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Patterson, Laura Sloan, 1974-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2008]
Subjects:	Domestic fiction, American > History and criticism. American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism. American fiction > Southern States > History and criticism. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Feminist fiction, American > History and criticism. Domestic relations in literature. Kitchens in literature. Home in literature. Women in literature. Southern States > In literature.

Table of 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.