Kitchen economics : women's regionalist fiction and political economy / Thomas Strychacz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strychacz, Thomas F., author.

Series:

Studies in American literary realism and naturalism.

Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Domestic fiction, American--History and criticism.

Domestic fiction, American.

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

American fiction.

American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Home economics in literature.

Women in literature.

Housekeeping in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages).

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, 2020.

Summary:

"An analysis of how nineteenth-century women regional writers represent political economic thought"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Female Regionalist Writing and Aeconomia

Plots of Polity in Late Nineteenth-Century US Popular Economic Discourses

Fabulist Plots of Polity in Freeman's The Revolt of Mother and A Mistaken Charity

Supposing an Island: Political Economic Topographies in Stowe and Jewett

The Kitchen Economics of Green Island in Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs

Talking Turkey: The Political Economy of Thanksgiving in Cooke and Stowe

Reconstructing the Fruit Sublime in Dunbar-Nelson's Mr. Baptiste: Barter and the Political Economy of the Tropical Fruit Trade

Economics Gingerbread Style: Toward a Model Political Economy of the Kitchen.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-9293-9