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Gillian Browns book probes the key relationship between domestic ideology and formulations of the self in nineteenth-century America. Arguing that domesticity institutes gender, class, and racial distinctions that govern masculine as well as feminine identity, Brown brilliantly alters, for literary critics, feminists, and cultural historians, the critical perspective from which nineteenth-century American literature and culture have been viewed.In this study of the domestic constitution of individualism, Brown traces how the values of interiority, order, privacy, and enclosure associated with the American home come to define selfhood in general. By analyzing writings by Stowe, Hawthorne, Melville, Fern, and Gilman, and by examining other contemporary cultural modes--abolitionism, consumerism, architecture, interior decorating, motherhood, mesmerism, hysteria, and agoraphobia--she reconfigures the parameters of both domesticity and the patterns of self it fashions. Unfolding a representational history of the domestic, Browns work offers striking new readings of the literary texts as well as of the cultural contexts that they embody.

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title:Domestic Individualism : Imagining Self in Nineteenth-century America New Historicism ; 14
author:Brown, Gillian.
publisher:University of California Press
isbn10 | asin:0520080998
print isbn13:9780520080997
ebook isbn13:9780585192635
language:English
subjectDomestic fiction, American--History and criticism, American fiction--19th century--History and criticism, Psychological fiction, American--History and criticism, Stowe, Harriet Beecher,--1811-1896--Political and social views, Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1
publication date:1990
lcc:PS374.D57B7 1990eb
ddc:813/.309
subject:Domestic fiction, American--History and criticism, American fiction--19th century--History and criticism, Psychological fiction, American--History and criticism, Stowe, Harriet Beecher,--1811-1896--Political and social views, Hawthorne, Nathaniel,--1804-1
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Domestic Individualism
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The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor
1. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women,
by Caroline Walker Bynum
2. The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century,
by Walter Benn Michaels
3. Nationalism and Minor Literature: James Clarence Mangan and the Emergence of Irish Cultural Nationalism, by David Lloyd
4. Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England,
by Stephen Greenblatt
5. The Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of History, by Franois Hartog, translated by Janet Lloyd
6. Puzzling Shakespeare: Local Reading and Its Discontents, by Leah S. Marcus
7. The Rites of Knighthood: The Literature and Politics of Elizabethan Chivalry, by Richard C. McCoy
8. Literary Practice and Social Change in Britain, 1380-1530, edited by Lee Patterson
9. Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare, by Jonathan Crewe
10. Rabelais's Carnival: Text, Context, Metatext, by Samuel Kinser
11. Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre, by Adrian Frazier
12. Literature, Politics, and Culture in Postwar Britain, by Alan Sinfield
13. Habits of Thought in the English Renaissance: Religion, Politics, and the Dominant Culture, by Debora Kuller Shuger
14. Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America, by Gillian Brown
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Domestic Individualism
Imagining Self in Nineteenth-Century America
Gillian Brown
University of California Press
Berkeley Los Angeles Oxford
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University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd.
Oxford, England
(c) 1990 by
The Regents of the University of California
First Paperback Printing 1992
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brown, Gillian.
Domestic individualism : imagining self in nineteenth-century
America / Gillian Brown.
p. cm. (The New historicism : 14)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-520-08099-8
1. Domestic fiction, AmericanHistory and criticism. 2. American
fiction19th centuryHistory and criticism. 3. Stowe, Harriet
Beecher, 1811-1896Political and social views. 4. Hawthorne,
Nathanial, 1804-1864Political and social views. 5. Melville,
Herman, 1819-1891Political and social views. 6. Individualism in
literature. 7. Self in literature. I. Title. II. Series.
PS374.D57B7 1990
813'.309dc20 90-11143
CIP
Printed in the United States of America
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Performance of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.481984.
Page vii
To My Mother and Father
Page ix
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
1
Part One: Stowe's Domestic Reformations
1. Domestic Politics in Uncle Tom's Cabin
13
2. Sentimental Possession
39
Part Two: Hawthorne's Gothic Revival
3. Women's Work and Bodies in The House of the Seven Gables
63
4. The Mesmerized Spectator
96
Part Three: Melville's Misanthropy
5. Anti-sentimentalism and Authorship in Pierre
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