Archives of desire : the queer historical work of New England regionalism / J. Samaine Lockwood.

By:

Lockwood, J. Samaine [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781469625386

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PS243 .A734 2015

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Contents:

Literature's historical acts -- Out of the china closet -- Spectral fusions, modernist times -- Epilogue: the intimate historicism of feminist criticism.

Subject: "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"--

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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PS243 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn921988603

Includes bibliographies and index.

"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"--

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.

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