The Art of Retreat : Domestic Romanticisms in the Early United States.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hankins, Laurel V.

Series:

Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture, 1650-1850 Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Domestic fiction.

Romanticism--United States.

Romanticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Bucknell University Press, 2025.

Summary:

The political and cultural fantasy of home as a retreat from the pressures of the world first emerged in the U.S.alongside two major nineteenth-century literary movements: Romanticism and domestic fiction.

Contents:

Cover

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: Inventing Domestic Retreat

1. Charles Brockden Brown's Domestic Scenes

2. Salmagundi's Elbow-Chair Domesticity

3. The Voice of Nature: Hope Leslie and Early American Romanticism

4. Epicene Genius in Theodore Winthrop's Cecil Dreeme

5. Tracking Harriet E. Wilson's Spiritualist Visions

Coda: #WFH

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-68448-564-9

OCLC:

1519534934