Download or read book Domesticity and Design in American Women’s Lives and Literature written by Caroline Hellman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the ways Cather, Stowe, Wharton, and Alcott inhabited domestic space and portrayed it in their work. Exploring authors who had intriguing and autonomous relationships with home, Hellman undertakes a dual treatment of domesticity, synthesizing a more complete understanding of the relationships between social history and literary accomplishment.