Description: At Home in the World : Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present, Hardcover by Dibattista, Maria; Nord, Deborah Epstein, ISBN 0691138117, ISBN-13 9780691138114, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
A bold new literary history that says womens 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 womens 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, and labor unrest to democracy, tyranny, globalism, and the clash of cultures. In this new literary history, Maria DiBattista and Deborah Epstein Nord contend that even the most seemingly traditional works by British, American, and other English-language women writers redefine the domestic sphere in ways that incorporate the concerns of public life, allowing characters and authors alike to forge new, emancipatory narratives.
Th explores works by a wide range of writers, including canonical figures such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront, George Eliot, Harriet Jacobs, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Toni Morrison; neglected or marginalized writers like Mary Antin, Tess Slesinger, and Martha Gellhorn; and recent and contemporary figures, including Nadine Gordimer, Anita Desai, Edwidge Danticat, and Jhumpa Lahiri. DiBattista and Nord show how these writers dramatize tensions between home and the wider world through recurrent themes of sailing forth, escape, exploration, dissent, and emigration. Throughout, th uncovers the undervalued public concerns of women writers who ventured into ever-wider geographical, cultural, and political territories, forging new definitions of what it means to create a home in the world.
The result is an enlightening reinterpretation of womens writing from the early nineteenth century to the present day.
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Book Title: At Home in the World : Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Topic: Women, Women Authors, Subjects & Themes / Women
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 0.9 in
Genre: Literary Criticism, History
Item Weight: 19 Oz
Author: Deborah Epstein Nord, Maria Dibattista
Item Length: 9.6 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
