Domestic individualism : imagining self in nineteenth-century America
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Domestic individualism : imagining self in nineteenth-century America
（The new historicism : studies in cultural poetics / Stephen Greenblatt, general editor, 14）
University of California Press, 1992, c1990
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Stowe's Domestit Reformations
1. Domestic Politics in Uncle Tom's Cabin
2. Sentimental Possession
Part Two: Hawthorne's Gothic Revival
3. Women's Work and Bodies in The House of the Seven Gahfrs
4. The Mesmerized Spectator
Part Three: Melville's Misanthropy
5. Anti-sentimentalism and Authorship in Pierre
6. The Empire of Agoraphobia
Afterword
Notes
Index
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