Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America

by Gillian D. Brown

Book Overview

Gillian Brown's book probes the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in nineteenth-century America. Arguing that domesticity institutes gender, class, and racial distinctions that govern masculine as well as feminine identity, Brown brilliantly alters, for literary critics, feminists, and cultural historians, the critical perspective from which nineteenth-century American literature and culture have been viewed.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520080998
• ISBN13: 9780520080997
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"