At Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present

by Deborah Epstein Nord and Maria DiBattista

Book Overview

A bold new literary history that says women's writing is defined less by domestic concerns than by an engagement with public life

In a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic concerns than by an active engagement with the most pressing issues of public life: from class and religious divisions, slavery, warfare,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691138117
• ISBN13: 9780691138114
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"