Home matters : longing and belonging, nostalgia and mourning in women's fiction / Roberta Rubenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubenstein, Roberta, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--Women authors.

Domestic fiction, American--History and criticism.

Domestic fiction, American.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

United States.

History.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Great Britain.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

English fiction.

English fiction--Women authors.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism.

Domestic fiction, English.

Nostalgia in literature.

Desire in literature.

Grief in literature.

Home in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 210 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

In a number of narratives by contemporary women writers, nostalgia or homesickness functions not regressively but affirmatively as a vehicle for "fixing" the past: for imaginatively transforming a character's relation to spaces, places, history, memory, and/or cultural exile or displacement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-203) and index.

ISBN:

0312238754

OCLC:

45202064