Introduction. Harriet Prescott Spofford: The Home, the Nation, and the Wilderness
Throughout the nineteenth century, as underlined by Nancy Cott in The Bonds of Womanhood, “the central convention of domesticity was the contrast between the home and the world” (64). The tension between private and public no doubt informs most of Harriet Prescott Spofford’s work and will be addres...
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European journal of American studies
2019
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| גישה מקוונת: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| סיכום: | Throughout the nineteenth century, as underlined by Nancy Cott in The Bonds of Womanhood, “the central convention of domesticity was the contrast between the home and the world” (64). The tension between private and public no doubt informs most of Harriet Prescott Spofford’s work and will be addressed from many different angles by the contributors to this special issue. As a middle-class white woman who lived with her husband and extended family on the beautiful premises of Deer Island, Mass... |
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