the queer historical work of New England regionalism /
First Statement of Responsibility
J. Samaine Lockwood.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Chapel Hill :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
The University of North Carolina Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2015]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource
SERIES
Series Title
Gender and American culture
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-210) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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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JSTOR
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22573/ctt14r7zw0
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Title
Archives of desire
International Standard Book Number
9781469625362
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American literature-- New England-- History and criticism.
American literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Regionalism in literature.
Women and literature-- New England-- History-- 19th century.