{"product_id":"private-woman-public-stage-literary-domesticity-in-nineteenth-century-america-9780807854228","title":"Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America","description":"In the decades spanning the nineteenth century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace. Twelve of the century's most successful women writers provide the focus for Mary Kelley's landmark study: Maria Cummins, Caroline Howard Gilman, Caroline Lee Hentz, Mary Jane Holmes, Maria McIntosh, Sara Parton, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Virginia Terhune, Susan Warner, and Augusta Evans Wilson. These women shared more than commercial success. Collectively they created fictions that Kelley terms literary domesticity, books that both embraced and called into question the complicated expectations shaping the lives of so many nineteenth-century women. Matured in a culture of domesticity and dismissed by a male writing establishment, they struggled to reconcile public recognition with the traditional roles of wife and mother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on the 200 volumes of published prose and on the letters, diaries, and journals of these writers, Kelley explores the tensions that accompanied their unprecedented literary success. In a new preface, she discusses the explosion in the scholarship on writing women since the original 1984 publication of \u003ci\u003ePrivate Woman, Public Stage\u003c\/i\u003e and reflects on the book's ongoing relevance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Kelley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.38h x 6.00w x 1.04d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807854228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKelley, Mary:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Mary Kelley is a Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. Previously, she was the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Among her most recent books are \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Margaret Fuller\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Power of Her Sympathy: The Autobiography and Journal of Catharine Maria Sedgwick\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40161659355251,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":38.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_fb57d68c-f969-49d0-a5ac-b735f11f1191.jpg?v=1654955772","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/private-woman-public-stage-literary-domesticity-in-nineteenth-century-america-9780807854228","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}