Sites Unseen: The Literary Politics of 19th Century American Domestic Space

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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)
    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