The Patchwork Quilt
Ideas of Community in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Fiction
©2001
Monographs
XII,
172 Pages
Series:
American University Studies , Volume 74
Summary
Nineteenth-century American women’s patchwork-quilt fiction sought to redefine the concept of «brotherhood», established in Winthrop’s «city upon a hill», by providing an inclusive and matriarchal model for the communal experiment that was America. Patchwork-quilt fiction, from such domestic writers as Susan Warner to local colorists like Sarah Orne Jewett, combines realistic detail with women’s metaphors like the hearth, home, kitchen, garden, and quilt, to express feminine ideas about community.
Details
- Pages
- XII, 172
- Publication Year
- 2001
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820440743
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Literature Frontier Americanism community experience Susan Strehle American women writers
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2001, 2005. XII, 172 pp., 1 ill.
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