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Apocalyptic Rumblings: Catharine E. Beecher’s Domestic Economy and Environmentalism
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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. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Catharine E. Beecher home economics human ecology environmentalism ecofeminism...
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American Women of Letters and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences: Styles of Affiliation
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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...
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Borderlands Saints: Secular Sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture Domestic Negotiations: Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art Radical Chicana Poetics
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 405–408.
Published: 01 June 2015
... realms. Her scope for examining the domestic is wide,
including fashion practices among San Antonio chili vendors, depictions 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...
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A Corporate Plantation Reading Public: Labor, Literacy, and Diaspora in the Global Black South
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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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Contested Terrain: The Suburbs as Region
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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...
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Refugees of the South: Central Americans in the U.S. Latino Imaginary
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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...
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Domesticity beyond Sentiment: Edith Wharton, Decoration, and Divorce
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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...
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The Asian American Contract: On Useful Labor and Social Reproduction in Severance and Minari
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American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 473–499.
Published: 01 September 2024
... produce, to sustain these very workers. 12 It is in this sense that the film, released in 2020, presents a retrospective account of early neoliberalism in the United States through the narrative of Jacob’s aspirational economic ascension, while Severance imagines the end of neoliberalism through...
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“Rightly Enough Called Girls”: Melville’s Violated Virgins and Male Marketplace Fears
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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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Hunger for the Literal: Writing and Industrial Change in Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons
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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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The Scene of Eviction: Reification and Resistance in Depression-Era Narratives of Dispossession
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 497–525.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of immiseration. The economic crisis triggered by the pandemic intensified this eviction epidemic, further illuminating the cruelty of a privatized housing system that prevents tenants from making homes of their housing, extracting as much profit from one lessee before moving on to the next. Both during...
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Exporting Manhood: Adaptation and the Post-NAFTA Latinx Novel
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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...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 172–175.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Gilbert . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2018 . xii, 370 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $32.95 ; e-book available. The Hell of War Comes Home: Imaginative Texts from the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq . By Owen W. Gilman Jr. Jackson : Univ. Press of Mississippi . 2018...
View articletitled, Remembering World War I in America A Shadow on Our Hearts: Soldier-Poetry, Morality, and the American War in Vietnam The Hell of War Comes <span class="search-highlight">Home</span>: Imaginative Texts from the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq Bodies at War: Genealogies of Militarism in Chicana Literature and Culture
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Periodizing Authorship, Characterizing Genre: Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Benevolent Literacy Narratives
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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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The Morgesons , Aesthetic Predicaments, and the Competitive Logic of the Market Economy
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 29–57.
Published: 01 March 2006
..., is no stranger to the
nineteenth-century home. Of course, domestic activities such as din-
ing, decorating, visiting, and dancing have not only economic but also
aesthetic components. Like works of art and natural embodiments of
the beautiful and the sublime, everyday artifacts and activities can
become...
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Drowning (in) Kittens: The Reproduction of Girlhood in Victorian America
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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...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 220–222.
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...
View articletitled, New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott; Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959–1995; Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics
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Future West: Utopia and Apocalypse in Frontier Science Fiction; Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 223–225.
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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The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South; James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 225–227.
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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Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System; Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England
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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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