Sites Unseen: The Literary Politics of 19th Century American Domestic Space
Document
This thesis addresses the role that the home played in 19th century American political and social structures by analyzing the ways in which six women authors portrayed women characters within private domestic sites. Authors Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, Fanny Fern, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Harriet Wilson, and Kate Chopin crafted vivid and heartbreaking stories of women in particularly hidden, forgotten, and unvalued spaces such as garrets, attics, and cellars that serve as barometers for the cultural and political climate of the authors' reality.
Item Description
Name(s)
Author: Curtis, Margaret Kleanthe
Thesis advisor: Brown, Lois
Date
April 15, 2016
Extent
111 pages
Language
eng
Genre
Physical Form
electronic
Discipline
Rights and Use
In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Digital Collection
PID
ir:738