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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Radical Retreats: Sentimentalism, Separate Spheres, and the Domestic Turn in American Women's Fiction, 1850--1940

Abstract

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By marking out a pattern of retreat in the works of American female writers---Fanny Fern, Elizabeth Stoddard, Jessie Fauset, and Dorothy Parker---who dramatize movement across social spaces, this dissertation characterizes mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century female movement into the public sphere as unconfident, arguing that we can position their retreats as progressive through reading resistance to capitalism as motivating them.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
English
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2015

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Forst, Jean
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Parker, Robert Dale

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(MiAaPQ)AAI3362785
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/81452

Chain of custody

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University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh
Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Forst, Jean. Radical Retreats: Sentimentalism, Separate Spheres, and the Domestic Turn in American Women's Fiction, 1850--1940. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/81452