| Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism Contributor(s): Lockwood, J. Samaine (Author) |
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ISBN: 1469625369 ISBN-13: 9781469625362 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $30.88 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Women Authors - History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) |
| Dewey: 810.992 |
| LCCN: 2015010514 |
| Series: Gender and American Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.21" W x 9.27" (0.81 lbs) 238 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - New England - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lockwood, J. Samaine: - J. Samaine Lockwood is associate professor of English at George Mason University. |