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Playing House in the American West : Western Women's Life Narratives, 1839-1987 /
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Playing House in the American West : |b Western Women's Life Narratives, 1839-1987 / |c [edited by] Cathryn Halverson. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Playing house on the frontier: Caroline Kirkland and Louise Clappe -- "Your ex-washlady": Elinore Pruitt Stewart, the woman homesteader of Wyoming -- "Straight-made in nothing": Mary MacLane and domestic ritual -- Girls of the limberlost: Gene Stratton-Porter and Opal Whiteley -- "Wind and sun are good housekeepers": the domestic narratives of Mary Austin and Zitkala-Sa -- Camps, caves, and attics: playing house in Willa Cather's western novels -- My Great, Wide, Beautiful World: home writing as travel writing -- Eating in, eating out, and eating al Otro Lado: M.F.K. Fisher's The Gastronomical Me -- Searching for home: Jean Stafford's west -- The once and future home: Housekeeping and Anywhere but Here -- "I am going to 'play like' you have come." | |
| 520 | |a 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 | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Women in literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01177912 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Women authors, American. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01177210 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Women and literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01177093 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Domestic space in literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01903046 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Autobiography |x Women authors. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00822617 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a LITERARY CRITICISM |x American |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Femmes dans la litterature. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Espace domestique dans la litterature. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Écrits de femmes autobiographiques |x Histoire et critique. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Women in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Women authors, American |z West (U.S.) | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Domestic space in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Autobiography |x Women authors |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Women and literature |z West (U.S.) | |
| 651 | 7 | |a West United States. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01243255 | |
| 651 | 0 | |a West (U.S.) |x In literature. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Halverson, Cathryn, |e editor. | |
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| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2013 US Regional Studies, West | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2013 Complete | ||