TY - BOOK AU - Lockwood,J.Samaine TI - Archives of desire: the queer historical work of New England regionalism T2 - Gender and American culture SN - 9781469625386 AV - PS243 .A734 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - The University of North Carolina Press KW - American literature KW - New England KW - History and criticism KW - Women authors KW - Women and literature KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Regionalism in literature KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - "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"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=978187&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -