A bold new literary history that says women's writing is defined
less by domestic concerns than by an engagement with public life In
a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of
women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work
has been defined less by domestic concerns than by an active
engagement with the most pressing issues of public life: from class
and religious divisions, slavery, warfare, and labor unrest to
democracy, tyranny, globalism, and the clash of cultures. In this
new literary history, Maria DiBattista and Deborah Epstein Nord
contend that even the most seemingly traditional works by British,
American, and other English-language women writers redefine the
domestic sphere in ways that incorporate the concerns of public
life, allowing characters and authors alike to forge new,
emancipatory narratives. The book explores works by a wide range of
writers, including canonical figures such as Jane Austen, Charlotte
Bronte, George Eliot, Harriet Jacobs, Edith Wharton, Virginia
Woolf, Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Toni Morrison; neglected
or marginalized writers like Mary Antin, Tess Slesinger, and Martha
Gellhorn; and recent and contemporary figures, including Nadine
Gordimer, Anita Desai, Edwidge Danticat, and Jhumpa Lahiri.
DiBattista and Nord show how these writers dramatize tensions
between home and the wider world through recurrent themes of
sailing forth, escape, exploration, dissent, and emigration.
Throughout, the book uncovers the undervalued public concerns of
women writers who ventured into ever-wider geographical, cultural,
and political territories, forging new definitions of what it means
to create a home in the world. The result is an enlightening
reinterpretation of women's writing from the early nineteenth
century to the present day.
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