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American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 623–650.
Published: 01 December 2022
... is to discover in domestic economy a way of thinking about nature as something in which we live and, equally important, that lives in us. alan.ackerman@utoronto.ca Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Catharine E. Beecher home economics human ecology environmentalism ecofeminism...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 181–183.
Published: 01 March 2003
... little relation to women’s reality in domestic
contexts (61, 58). Thus, Beecher advocated for the applied science curriculum
we now know as home economics, as a method of professionalizing homemak-
ing...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 405–408.
Published: 01 June 2015
... of
home spaces and decor in Jovita González’s and Cleofas Jaramillo’s mid-
twentieth-century fiction, cultural and governmental constructions of cook-
ing and home economics in Fabiola Cabeza de Baca’s writings, alternative con-
ceptions of house and home in Sandra Cisneros’s and Carmen Lomas Garza’s...
Journal Article
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 523–555.
Published: 01 September 2019
... gardens and flowers and the adoption of sanitary conditions, wholesome preparation of foods and other home economics. As fall approaches and the crops are laid by, the tenants are furnished with teams and wagons, and huge piles of wood are prepared for winter fuel. (Smith 1923 : 71) Contrary...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 617–644.
Published: 01 September 2012
... “manifest
domesticity”: a revision of “the nation as home” for the postwar era,
“inextricable from the political, economic, and cultural movements of
empire.”33 Suburban nation building and suburban domesticity enact
an ongoing process of inclusion and exclusion, an expansion and con-
traction...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 479–507.
Published: 01 September 2011
... with editors, printers, and publicists,
and lined up reviews in leading journals prior to publication” (NGC, 84).
Wolff simply omits Codman altogether, describing Decoration as “Whar-
ton’s first real book” (A Feast of Words, 77).
13 On the home economics movement, see Sarah A. Leavitt...
Journal Article
American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 387–412.
Published: 01 June 2001
... migration.50
As Goldman explores the plight of Central American refugees who
leave the economic disparity of their home countries only to encounter
similar conditions in the North, the stranded ship comes to represent...
Journal Article
American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 55–82.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Meghan M. Wadle Abstract This essay contextualizes Herman Melville’s “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids” alongside antebellum portrayals of the female wage earner. Melville’s decision to measure the costs of economic change by sexualizing female wage earners typifies antebellum...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 699–728.
Published: 01 December 2005
... culture.
Cassandra, finally, abjures most of the atmospheres with which she
experimented. Veronica marries Ben and moves into a new house at
Surrey; Locke, over Cassandra’s objections, marries Alice and moves
to Rosville (in keeping with economic destiny). Cassandra remains in
her childhood home...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 497–525.
Published: 01 September 2022
... on the factory floor,” these scholars maintain that modernists found the home a fruitful site for analyzing large-scale reorganizations in social, economic, and political life. But if US modernists defamiliarized the home, as Edmunds contends, through “grotesque modes of representation” that made the domestic...
FIGURES
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 March 2004
... and others affiliated with her
didactic project for American literature.
With their concentration on what Sedgwick frequently called
‘‘home education Sedgwick’s books of the late 1830s and the 1840s
have garnered limited and generally unenthusiastic attention.9 But
this was not the case in her own time...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 811–839.
Published: 01 December 2019
... posits the border as the central transformative space between two imbricated economic and cultural circuits. Despite strict enforcement of movement along the US-Mexico border, both people and products routinely cross. Legal laborers make daily crossings from their homes in Tijuana to domestic...
Journal Article
American Literature (2014) 86 (2): 305–331.
Published: 01 June 2014
... beings are cared for regardless of their economic
value. Thus the direction of tender loving care toward an animal with no
economic value demonstrated that a home was functioning as it ought
to.” Loving and caring for pets became seen as an indication of one’s
capacity to love human animals...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 181–183.
Published: 01 March 2010
... the story of U.S. literary economics and its curi-
ous investment in female sexual regulation through elaborate readings of key
modernist novels in Grotesque Relations. Moving through the first half of the
twentieth century as the U.S. welfare state is being organized, Edmunds shows
how the home, so...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 183–186.
Published: 01 March 2010
...—in conjunction with major texts of social reform,
from legislation mandating mothers’ pensions to antilynching calls from the
black press to advertising and home economics texts, she convincingly proves
that modernist writers sought to undo the assumptions about family (and the
200 American Literature...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 186–188.
Published: 01 March 2010
... the story of U.S. literary economics and its curi-
ous investment in female sexual regulation through elaborate readings of key
modernist novels in Grotesque Relations. Moving through the first half of the
twentieth century as the U.S. welfare state is being organized, Edmunds shows
how the home, so...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 188–190.
Published: 01 March 2010
... the story of U.S. literary economics and its curi-
ous investment in female sexual regulation through elaborate readings of key
modernist novels in Grotesque Relations. Moving through the first half of the
twentieth century as the U.S. welfare state is being organized, Edmunds shows
how the home, so...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 190–192.
Published: 01 March 2010
... the story of U.S. literary economics and its curi-
ous investment in female sexual regulation through elaborate readings of key
modernist novels in Grotesque Relations. Moving through the first half of the
twentieth century as the U.S. welfare state is being organized, Edmunds shows
how the home, so...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 192–195.
Published: 01 March 2010
... the story of U.S. literary economics and its curi-
ous investment in female sexual regulation through elaborate readings of key
modernist novels in Grotesque Relations. Moving through the first half of the
twentieth century as the U.S. welfare state is being organized, Edmunds shows
how the home, so...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 March 2010
... the story of U.S. literary economics and its curi-
ous investment in female sexual regulation through elaborate readings of key
modernist novels in Grotesque Relations. Moving through the first half of the
twentieth century as the U.S. welfare state is being organized, Edmunds shows
how the home, so...
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