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Explores the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in 19th-century America. Arguing that domesticity not only presumes but institutes distinctions of gender, class and race, Brown reveals how these distinctions in turn inform identity.

Table of Contents
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

Domestic Individualism

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/09/1992
      ISBN13: 9780520080997, 978-0520080997
      ISBN10: 0520080998

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in 19th-century America. Arguing that domesticity not only presumes but institutes distinctions of gender, class and race, Brown reveals how these distinctions in turn inform identity.

      Table of Contents
      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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