Publishing the Family

June Howard

Published by Duke University Press 2001

Publishing the Family

June Howard
Edited by: Donald E. Pease

In the series New Americanists

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822380412

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About this book

Interweaves literary and publishing histories around the collaborative novel THE WHOLE FAMILY in order to explore categories of readers and writers in the U.S. during the first two decades of the twentieth-century.

Author / Editor information

June Howard is Professor of English, American Culture, and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan.

Reviews

“An engaging and ambitious work of great importance. Howard’s discussion may radically reconfigure the terms of discussion for nineteenth-century conceptions of gender roles. Valuable not only for its impressive scholarship but also for its originality and insight, Publishing the Family is sure to occupy a prominent place in American literary and cultural studies.”—Emory Elliott, author of Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age

“Howard tells an original and carefully reasoned story about the nature of American literary sentimentalism and realism and connects both to changing expectations about gendered identity and experience. In the process, she uses the phenomenon of this collaboratively authored novel to subject our commonsense assumptions about literary creativity to searching scrutiny.”—Janice Radway, author of A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. ‘‘A Strangely Exciting Story’’ How It Began / Authorship and Collaboration / Scenes of Reading and Writing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. The Hearthstone at Harper’s Harper’s and Antebellum Print Culture: A House Undivided / Harper’s and Postbellum Print Culture: ‘‘A Climb up the Spiral Staircase’’ / Harper’s in the New Century: ‘‘Everybody’s Busy Day’’ / A Family Performance: The Composite Novel as Vaudeville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
3. Making the FamilyWhole What Is a Family? / The Father’s Family / The Female Counter-family / Intimacy and Publicity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
4. The Sometimes-NewWoman Sex and Education / The Subtle Syncretism of MaryWilkins Freeman / The Extraordinary Miss Jordan / Female Modernity and the Magazine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
5.What Is Sentimentality? Embodied Thoughts / Feeling Right / Home Sweet Home / Feeling and Form / Sentimentality in Circulation, circa 1908 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
6. Closing the Book Culture and Commerce / Perfect Felicity (with Professional Help) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Appendix 1. Contents and Characters of TheWhole Family Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Appendix 2. The Generations of the ‘‘Family’’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 359
Illustrations
- Other: 63 (54 b&w, 9 color)

eBook

Published: October 3, 2001
ISBN: 9780822380412