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Domesticity with a difference : the nonfiction of Catharine Beecher, Sarah J. Hale, Fanny Fern, and Margaret Fuller / Nicole Tonkovich.

Van Pelt Library PS152 .T66 1997
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Tonkovich, Nicole.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Fern, Fanny, 1811-1872.
Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850.
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879.
Collection Prose.
American prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
American prose literature.
American prose literature--Women authors.
American prose literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Women--United States--History--19th century--Historiography.
Women.
Women and journalism--United States--History--19th century.
Women and journalism.
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879--Prose.
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell.
Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878.
Beecher, Catharine Esther.
Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850--Prose.
Fuller, Margaret.
Fern, Fanny, 1811-1872--Prose.
Fern, Fanny.
Sex role in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Families in literature.
Home in literature.
History.
Historiography.
United States.
Physical Description:
xvi, 230 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [1997]
Contents:
Introduction: Eccentric Domesticity XI
Chapter 1 Her Father's Best Boy: Catharine Beecher and Margaret Fuller 3
Chapter 2 Fatherless Daughters: Sarah Josepha Hale and Fanny Fern 26
Chapter 3 Patronymics, Property, and Proper Naming 47
Chapter 4 Domestic Masquerade 72
Chapter 5 The Domestic Manners of American Ladies 91
Chapter 6 Domesticated Eloquence 109
Chapter 7 The Difference Between Authors and Servants 128
Chapter 8 Domesticating Pedagogy 148
Chapter 9 Domesticity with A Difference 173.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-220) and index.
ISBN:
0878059938
OCLC:
36135872

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