At Home In The World: Women Writers And Public Life, From Austen To The Present - 9780691138114

The book explores works by a wide range of writers, including canonical figures such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront?, 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 contemporary figures, including Nadine Gordimer, Anita Desai and Jhumpa Lahiri. These writers dramatize tensions between home and the wider world through recurrent themes of sailing forth, escape, exploration, dissent, and emigration. 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.

• | Author: Maria DiBattista, Deborah Epstein Nord
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 21, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 296 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 0691138117
• | ISBN-13: 9780691138114