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Home Fronts: Domesticity and Its Critics in the Antebellum United States
Lora Romero
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Description for Home Fronts: Domesticity and Its Critics in the Antebellum United States
Paperback. 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. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSBF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Unlike studies of nineteenth-century culture that perpetuate a dichotomy of a public, male world set against a private, female world, Lora Romero’s Home Fronts shows the many, nuanced, and sometimes contradictory cultural planes on which struggles for authority unfolded in antebellum America.
Romero remaps the literary landscape of the last century by looking at the operations of domesticity on the frontier as well as within the middle-class home and by reconsidering such crucial (if sometimes unexpected) sites for the workings of domesticity as social reform movements, African-American activism, and homosocial high culture. In the process, she indicts theories of ... Read more
Unlike studies of nineteenth-century culture that perpetuate a dichotomy of a public, male world set against a private, female world, Lora Romero’s Home Fronts shows the many, nuanced, and sometimes contradictory cultural planes on which struggles for authority unfolded in antebellum America.
Romero remaps the literary landscape of the last century by looking at the operations of domesticity on the frontier as well as within the middle-class home and by reconsidering such crucial (if sometimes unexpected) sites for the workings of domesticity as social reform movements, African-American activism, and homosocial high culture. In the process, she indicts theories of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Series
New Americanists
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822320425
SKU
V9780822320425
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About Lora Romero
At the time of her death, Lora Romero was Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University.
Reviews for Home Fronts: Domesticity and Its Critics in the Antebellum United States
"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