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Transformations of domesticity in modern women's writing : homelessness at home

Title: Transformations of domesticity in modern women's writing : homelessness at home / Thomas Foster.
Author: Foster, Thomas, 1959-
Publication: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

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Description

vi, 213 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Transformations of Domesticity in Modern Women's Writing makes new connections between feminist criticism of domestic ideology in the nineteenth century, modernist women's experiments with literary form, contemporary feminist debates about the politics of location, and postmodern theories of social space. The book identifies a coherent tradition of women's writing that transforms domestic ideologies of 'woman's place' by redefining the ideas about space which underlie that ideology, and deconstructing the binary opposition between public and private spheres. The result is to open the space of gender identity to new relations of class and race. The book demonstrates the continuing hold that domestic ideologies had on modernist women's imaginations, while at the same time showing how these writers anticipated postmodern redefinitions of social space. Specific chapters offer new readings of well-known authors, including Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf, and bring to light relatively forgotten novels by Emily Holmes Coleman and Sylvia Townsend Warner."--Jacket

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-207) and index.

Contents

What comes after the ideology of separate spheres? Women writers and modernism -- Homelessness at home: placing Emily dickinson in (women's) history -- 'We are all haunted houses': Marianne Moore's 'poetry' -- The grounding of modern women's fiction: Emily Holmes Coleman's The shutter of snow -- 'Can't one live in more places than one?: Virginia Woolf's The years -- 'Dream made flesh': sexual differences and narratives of revolution in Sylvia Townsend Warner's Summer will show -- From domestic grounding to domestic play: problems of reproduction and subversion in Gertrude Stein and Zora Neale Hurston.

ISBN

0333773470
9780333773475

LCCN

2002074838
9780333773475

OCLC

ocm49942808
49942808
SCSB-1272300

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library