At Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present
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At Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present
By (Author) Maria DiBattista
By (author) Deborah Epstein Nord
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
27th August 2019
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Gender studies: women and girls
809.89287
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Paperback
296
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
A bold literary history that says women's writing is defined less by domestic concerns than by an engagement with public life In a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this work has been defined less by domestic concerns than by an active engagement with the most pressing i
Reviews
"Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers"
"Shortlisted for the 2018 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society"
Author Bio
Maria DiBattista is the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English at Princeton University. Deborah Epstein Nord is the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature at Princeton University.
