MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 03120cam a2200385Ii 4500
001 12425991
005 20170419145335.0
008 160914s2017 nju b 001 0 eng d
020 $a0691138117$qhardcover
020 $a9780691138114$qhardcover
024 $a40026923200
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn958350834
035 $a(OCoLC)958350834
035 $a(NNC)12425991
040 $aYDX$beng$erda$cYDX$dOCLCQ$dUOK$dBDX$dNhCcYBP
050 4 $aPN471$b.D53 2017
082 04 $a809.89287$223
100 1 $aDiBattista, Maria,$d1947-$eauthor.
245 10 $aAt home in the world :$bwomen writers and public life, from Austen to the present /$cMaria DiBattista and Deborah Epstein Nord.
264 1 $aPrinceton, NJ :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2017]
300 $axiv, 279 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aIn a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's 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. The book explores works by a wide range of writers, including canonical figures such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, 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, the book 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 women's writing from the early nineteenth century to the present day.
650 0 $aPopular literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aLiterature and anthropology.
650 0 $aSex role in literature.
650 0 $aMarginality, Social, in literature.
650 0 $aFeminism and literature.
650 0 $aOutsiders in literature.
700 1 $aNord, Deborah Epstein,$d1949-$eauthor.
852 00 $bglx$hPN471$i.D53 2017