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Publishing the Family /
In Publishing the Family June Howard turns a study of the collaborative novel The Whole Family into a lens through which to examine American literature and culture at the beginning of the twentieth century. Striving to do equal justice to historical particulars and the broad horizons of social chang...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2001]
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| Colección: | New Americanists : 16
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. ''A Strangely Exciting Story'' How It Began / Authorship and Collaboration / Scenes of Reading and Writing
- 2. The Hearthstone at Harper's Harper's and Antebellum Print Culture: A House Undivided / Harper's and Postbellum Print Culture: ''A Climb up the Spiral Staircase'' / Harper's in the New Century: ''Everybody's Busy Day'' / A Family Performance: The Composite Novel as Vaudeville
- 3. Making the FamilyWhole What Is a Family? / The Father's Family / The Female Counter-family / Intimacy and Publicity
- 4. The Sometimes-NewWoman Sex and Education / The Subtle Syncretism of MaryWilkins Freeman / The Extraordinary Miss Jordan / Female Modernity and the Magazine
- 5.What Is Sentimentality? Embodied Thoughts / Feeling Right / Home Sweet Home / Feeling and Form / Sentimentality in Circulation, circa 1908
- 6. Closing the Book Culture and Commerce / Perfect Felicity (with Professional Help)
- Appendix 1. Contents and Characters of TheWhole Family
- Appendix 2. The Generations of the ''Family''
- Notes
- References
- Index