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049			_aAlfaisal Main Library
050		4	_aPN471 _b.D53 2017
100	1		_aDiBattista, Maria, _d1947- _eauthor
245	1	0	_aAt home in the world : _bwomen writers and public life, from Austen to the present / _cMaria DiBattista and Deborah Epstein Nord
260			_c2017
264		1	_aPrinceton, New Jersey : _bPrinceton University Press, _c[2017]
300			_axiv, 279 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 253-270) and index
505	0		_aIntroduction : The peripatetics -- Adventure -- Emancipation -- Pioneers -- War -- Politics -- Multinationals -- Conclusion : Promised lands
520			_aIn 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 Brontë, 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
650		0	_aPopular literature _xWomen authors _xHistory and criticism
650		0	_aEnglish literature _xWomen authors _xHistory and criticism
650		0	_aAmerican literature _xWomen authors _xHistory and criticism
650		0	_aWomen and literature _zEnglish-speaking countries _xHistory
650		0	_aLiterature and anthropology
650		0	_aFeminism and literature
650		0	_aWomen in literature
650		0	_aSex role in literature
650		0	_aMarginality, Social, in literature
650		0	_aOutsiders in literature
655		0	_aPrint books. _2local _94
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast
700	1		_aNord, Deborah Epstein, _d1949- _eauthor
942			_2lcc _cBOOKS