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Unlike studies of 19th-century culture that perpetuate a dichotomy of a public, male world set against a private, female world, this book shows the sometimes contradictory cultural planes on which struggles for authority unfolded in antebellum America. It also revises the terms of debate on 19th-century literature, history, and gender studies.

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"A landmark book in the effort to reconsider the structures of domesticity in nineteenth-century America. Home Fronts is dazzling."—Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University
"Romero’s striking command of all the recently resurrected nineteenth-century texts will make this book essential to people who work in this field."—Paul Lauter, Trinity College

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      Publisher: Duke University Press
      Publication Date: 29/10/1997
      ISBN13: 9780822320425, 978-0822320425
      ISBN10: 0822320428
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      Social and cultural anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Unlike studies of 19th-century culture that perpetuate a dichotomy of a public, male world set against a private, female world, this book shows the sometimes contradictory cultural planes on which struggles for authority unfolded in antebellum America. It also revises the terms of debate on 19th-century literature, history, and gender studies.

      Trade Review
      "A landmark book in the effort to reconsider the structures of domesticity in nineteenth-century America. Home Fronts is dazzling."—Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University
      "Romero’s striking command of all the recently resurrected nineteenth-century texts will make this book essential to people who work in this field."—Paul Lauter, Trinity College

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