Playing House in the American West : Western Women's Life Narratives, 1839-1987 /

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Examining an eclectic group of western women's autobiographical texts - canonical and otherwise - this book argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterized by strategic representations of unconventional domestic life. The controlling metaphor the author uses in her study is &quo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Halverson, Cathryn (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women in literature.
Women authors, American.
Women and literature.
Literature.
Domestic space in literature.
Autobiography > Women authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Espace domestique dans la litterature.
Écrits de femmes autobiographiques > Histoire et critique.
Women authors, American > West (U.S.)
Autobiography > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > West (U.S.)
West United States.
West (U.S.) > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Examining an eclectic group of western women's autobiographical texts - canonical and otherwise - this book argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterized by strategic representations of unconventional domestic life. The controlling metaphor the author uses in her study is "playing house." From Caroline Kirkland and Laura Ingalls Wilder to Willa Cather and Marilynne Robinson, from the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries, western authors have persistently embraced wayward or eccentric housekeeping to prove a woman's difference from western neighbors and eastern readers alike
Descripción Física:1 online resource (263 pages).
ISBN:9780817386863

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