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Summary:

"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. Lockwood draws on a diverse archive that includes fiction, material culture, collecting guides, and more. Showing how these women intellectuals aligned themselves with a powerful legacy of social and cultural dissent, Lockwood reveals that New England regionalism performed queer historical work, placing unmarried women and their myriad desires at the center of both regional and national history."--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Renovating the House of History
• 2. Literature's Historical Acts
• 3. Out of the China Closet
• 4. Spectral Fusions, Modernist Times.

Author/Creator:

Lockwood, J. Samaine , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Archives of desire: the queer historical work of New England regionalism [by Lockwood, J.S.]

Related Series:

Gender & American culture

Subjects:

American literature — New England — History and criticism

American literature — Women authors — History and criticism

Women and literature — New England — History — 19th century

New England — Intellectual life — 19th century

New England — In literature

Regionalism in literature

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-210) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

PS243 .L594 2015eb

ISBNs:

9781469625386
1469625385
9781469625362 [Invalid]
1469625369 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

921988603

Other Control Numbers:

EBC4322263 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12428357