Domesticity and Design in American Women's Lives and Literature - Stowe, Alcott, Cather, and Wharton Writing Home

This book considers the ways Cather, Stowe, Wharton, and Alcott inhabited domestic space and portrayed it in their work. Exploring authors who had intriguing and autonomous relationships with home, Hellman undertakes a dual treatment of domesticity, synthesizing a more complete understanding of the relationships between social history and litera