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Extreme domesticity : a view from the margins /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fraiman, Susan (Author)
Format: Book
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.
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 houses: histories of dislocation in immigrant fiction
  • Domesticity in extremis: homemaking by the unsheltered
  • Conclusion: Dwelling-in-traveling, traveling-in-dwelling.