TY  - BOOK
AU  - Suzanne V. Shepard
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Patchwork Quilt
T2  - Ideas of Community in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Fiction
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1100216
N2  - 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.
KW  - Literature, Frontier, Americanism, community experience, Susan Strehle, American women writers
LA  - English
ER  -