Archives of desire : the queer historical work of New England regionalism /
Lockwood, J. Samaine,
Archives of desire : the queer historical work of New England regionalism / J. Samaine Lockwood. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource. - Gender and American culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Renovating the house of history -- Literature's historical acts -- Out of the china closet -- Spectral fusions, modernist times -- Epilogue: the intimate historicism of feminist criticism.
"In this thought-provoking study of nineteenth-century America, J. Samaine Lockwood offers an important new interpretation of the literary movement known as American regionalism. Lockwood argues that regionalism in New England was part of a widespread woman-dominated effort to rewrite history. Lockwood demonstrates that New England regionalism was an intellectual endeavor that overlapped with colonial revivalism and included fiction and history writing, antique collecting, colonial home restoration, and photography. The cohort of writers and artists leading this movement included Sarah Orne Jewett, Alice Morse Earle, and C. Alice Baker, and their project was taken up by women of a younger generation, such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, who extended regionalism through the modernist moment"--
9781469625386
American literature--History and criticism.--New England
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Women and literature--History--New England--19th century.
Regionalism in literature.
Electronic Books.
PS243 / .A734 2015
Archives of desire : the queer historical work of New England regionalism / J. Samaine Lockwood. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource. - Gender and American culture .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Renovating the house of history -- Literature's historical acts -- Out of the china closet -- Spectral fusions, modernist times -- Epilogue: the intimate historicism of feminist criticism.
"In this thought-provoking study of nineteenth-century America, J. Samaine Lockwood offers an important new interpretation of the literary movement known as American regionalism. Lockwood argues that regionalism in New England was part of a widespread woman-dominated effort to rewrite history. Lockwood demonstrates that New England regionalism was an intellectual endeavor that overlapped with colonial revivalism and included fiction and history writing, antique collecting, colonial home restoration, and photography. The cohort of writers and artists leading this movement included Sarah Orne Jewett, Alice Morse Earle, and C. Alice Baker, and their project was taken up by women of a younger generation, such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, who extended regionalism through the modernist moment"--
9781469625386
American literature--History and criticism.--New England
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Women and literature--History--New England--19th century.
Regionalism in literature.
Electronic Books.
PS243 / .A734 2015