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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"domestic fiction"”.
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Maternal Realism: Public Mothering in the Work of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
… Gilman, and Hopkins retain elements of popular domestic fiction to create a new form: maternal realism. Their fictions conceive of an America in need of motherly guidance, offering a maternal value system and the practice of public mothering as a viable alternative to the nation's increasingly …
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"The ""Full Bloom of Rosy Health"": Fitness and Feminism in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction"
… notion have been launched by Nina Baym's Woman's Fiction and Frances Cogan's All-American Girl, but these works focus on only one genre, domestic fiction, whereas I examine a broad spectrum of genres and writers. Through analyses of Cooper's historical novels; Hawthorne's romances; antebellum …
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The Golden Heroine: An Analysis of the Domestic Heroine in Golden Age Children's Literature
… shall be referred to in this paper as the "Domestic Heroine"--was not only an embodiment of Victorian ideals of domesticity; she was also a literary descendant of the same spirited heroine featured in the adult genre of domestic fiction, from the early half of the nineteenth-century. This …
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Domestic narratives in the transatlantic community: Elizabeth Gaskell and Louisa May Alcott
… frameworks by focusing on how women‘s domestic fiction operates as a currency for literal and ideological interchanges between Britain and the United States. Concentrating primarily upon Elizabeth Gaskell‘s and Louisa May Alcott‘s fictions, I trace how they operate as 'transatlantic …
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Representing Divorce, Reforming Interiority: Narratives of Gender, Class and Family in Post-Reform Chinese Literature and Culture
… circulated through imported films, TV dramas, domestic fiction, interior design magazines and so on. In other words, divorce representations play a key role in projecting and channeling the desire and fantasy of a middle-class domestic culture and in remapping a harmonious and self-contained …
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The Margins of the Market: Women Writers and the US Publishing Industry in the Long 1950s
… and authorship are portrayed in women writers' fiction, how this was undergirded by the threat of violence, and how this violence was countered or subverted. The authors I consider here" Ann Petry, Dorothy B. Hughes, Laura Z. Hobson, Shirley Jackson, Carson McCullers, and Dorothy West" represent …
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Living clean and shopping green: Environmental domesticity and the nineteenth-century roots of ecoconsumption
“Living Clean and Shopping Green: Environmental Domesticity and the Nineteenth- Century Roots of Ecoconsumption,” traces current ideas of green capitalism—specifically “eco” or “green” consumption—back to nineteenth-century domestic manuals and domestic fiction. Emerging alongside the Market …
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"Is it time we move through or space?": literary anachronism and anachorism in the novels of Elizabeth Taylor
… stylistic engagements with time and place in her fiction. Blending theme with chronology, the study attaches a particular topic to each decade between the 1940s and the 1970s: war and its aftermath are considered in Taylor’s 1940s novels; the servant-figure in those of the 1950s; feminine …
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An investigation into the effects of the Victorian notions of duty and obedience on the domestic novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge.
Charlotte Mary Yonge wrote a number of domestic novels, between 1844 and 1901, sixteen of which are considered in this thesis. They accurately portray contemporary Victorian middle-class life and attempt, by means of lessons in moral behaviour, to instruct the reader in the importance of duty and …
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Equal Ardor: Female Desire, Amatory Fiction, and the Recasting of the Novel, 1680--1760
… explores the significance of amatory fiction in shaping the development of the eighteenth-century novel by arguing for the importance and persistence of the amatory heroine, a character who challenges the notion that female novelistic subjectivity must be based on absolute sexual …
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Converting Catholicism: Orestes A. Brownson, Anna H. Dorsey, and Irish America, 1840-1896
… on the conventions of popular Anglo- Protestant fiction, invited her Catholic audiences to participate in a broader cultural communion through a unique Catholic sentimentalism. Her "domestic" fiction itself served as an imaginative home where diverse readers could live whole and holy lives …
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Animals-as-Trope in the Selected Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison
… of animal tropes in African-American women's fiction is relational and expresses these writers' "ethic of caring" that stems from their folk and womanist world view. Found primarily in slave narratives and in domestic fiction of the 19th and early 20th centuries, pragmatic animal metaphors …
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A Family Matter
… Yet, is she completely innocent? Set in the fictional town of Cresswind, Texas, <em>A Family Matter </em>is a heartbreaking story of grief, romance, and revenge.</p>
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Invisible men: space, race, and housing in African American literature
… conversation with feminist and queer studies of domestic fiction. If the domestic is “a site where massive negotiations between often competing ideological pressures are undertaken and then processed into viable, even pleasurable, experiences of [or I would add, resistance to] domestication,” …