Kitchen Economics: Women's Regionalist Fiction and Political Economy

by Thomas Strychacz

An analysis of how nineteenth-century women regional writers represent political economic thought

WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH AGEE PRIZE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Readers of late nineteenth-century female American authors are familiar with plots, characters, and households that make a virtue of economizing. Scholars often interpret these scenarios in terms of a mythos of parsimony, frequently accompanied by a sort of elegiac republicanism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081732058X
• ISBN13: 9780817320584
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"