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"All-electric" narratives : time-saving appliances and domesticity in American literature 1945-2020 / Rachele Dini.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dini, Rachele, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Household appliances, Electric, in literature.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 360 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2022]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- PART I. Contextualising Domestic Electrical Appliances in the Cultural Imagination
- Introduction: Time-Saving Domestic Appliances, Modernity, and the American Century: A Case for the Significance of a Literary Trope
- 1.'Oh So Beautiful is the MixMaster': Appliances in Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sinclair Lewis, and Gertrude Stein
- Part II. Mechanisms of Containment: Cold War-Era Literary Responses to the 'All-Electric' Home
- 2. 'Everything in the Ice Box': Appliances in Jack Kerouac and Beat Culture
- 3. 'The Lamentation of a Vacuum Cleaner': Appliance Disappointments in John Cheever and Richard Yates
- Part IV. Gadgets of Protest: Feminism and Civil Rights Short-Circuit the 'All-Electric' Home
- 4. 'I'm a Toaster With a Cunt': Radical Feminist Appliances in Marge Piercy
- 5. 'If a N***** Buys a Woman a Washing Machine': Appliances and Race in Post-War African American Fiction
- PART V. Appliances, Techno-utopianism, and Hyperreality
- 6. 'Like Being Attacked' by a Vacuum Cleaner?: Appliances in Post-War Science Fiction
- 7. 'The Angel of Death Pushes a Vacuum Cleaner': Postmodernist Appliances in Kurt Vonnegut and Don DeLillo
- Conclusion: Appliances, Contemporary Culture, and Twenty-First Century Nostalgia for the 1950s
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 18, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Dini, Rachele. "All-electric" narratives
- ISBN:
- 9781501367380
- 1501367382
- 9781501367373
- 1501367374
- 9781501367366
- 1501367366
- Publisher Number:
- 99989048900
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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