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Manuscript and Women’s Domestic Papers
A key contribution of Renaissance and early modern women’s writing is “domestic papers” in manuscript. This umbrella term refers to diverse...
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Domestic Bliss
This chapter focuses on the issue of proximity in terms of affect. Libin argues that the public nature, coupled with the intensely emotional nature,...
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Recipe Books
Recipes are a source of practical information and a record of past historical domestic practices. They are also, however, a form of writing that...
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Hoby, Margaret
Lady Margaret Hoby (née Dakins) (c. 1571–1633) was the earliest known Englishwoman to write a diary. Her diary is also unique as a record of the life...
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Feminism and Geopolitical Commentary in Fernán Caballero’s La corruptora y la buena maestra (1868)
La corruptora y la buena maestra (1868) by Cecilia Böhl de Faber is a cuadro de costumbres that has received little attention from scholars. Written...
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Housewives and Old Wives: Sex and Superstition in English Beekee**
This chapter analyzes the gendered nature of English beekee** from the seventeenth century until the early twentieth century with strong emphasis...
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Domesticating the Wilderness, a Woman’s Mission: Jane Smiley, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
This chapter discusses Jane Smiley’s All-true Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton as an account of a pioneer woman’s life, relating it closely to...
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Charlotte M. Yonge and the Long Victorian Family: Instructing the ‘Mother-Sister’
This chapter reconsiders Charlotte Yonge’s portrayal of Victorian family dynamics, examining her changing representation of elder sisters in the role...
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White Fluff/Black Pigment: Health Commodity Culture and Victorian Imperial Geographies of Dependence
Victorian travel, like larger patterns of migration, was associated with a myriad of health hazards that were often seen as dangerous to the...
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Cœlebs in Search of a Wife by Hannah More
Poet, playwright, essayist, and tract writer Hannah More, known as a counter-revolutionary Evangelical reformer and abolitionist, published her first...
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State Terror and the Destruction of Families for Reproductive “Management” in Three Argentine Films
“Reproductive Justice,” as defined by Loretta J. Ross and Rickie Solinger (2017), includes the rights to have children and to be a parent. During the...
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Class and Social Structure: ‘It is not taken seriously’
The question of what was taken ‘seriously’ in war plays was central to the censorship’s consideration of whether they were safe for performance. The...
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The “Bushboy” in Children’s Literature: Missionary Ethnography and Imperial Adventure Fiction
In May 1847, the first ever group of San people to be publicly displayed in Britain arrived in Liverpool. After being purchased in Transorangia,...
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Esca** to Canada: Gambling on Northern Salvation in Stewart O’Nan’s The Odds
Stewart O’Nan’s The Odds (2012) depicts a white middle-aged US couple’s last-ditch efforts to save their marriage and financial future in the wake of...
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From HI-SEAS to Outer Space: Discourses of Water and Territory in U.S. Pacific Imperialism and Representations of U.S. Mars Colonization
This chapter analyzes how imperial discourses of water and territory serve to claim such seemingly disparate spaces as the Hawaiian Islands and the...
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The Psychological Vector
The three flagstone texts of twentieth-century feminist scholarship that critically drive this study’s psychological vector are Karen Horney’s New...
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Fowl-Related Proverbs in Anaañ: A Socio-semantic Approach
This Chapter is centred on the description of Anaañ (New Benue-Congo) proverb with focus on the domestic fowl11 (cock and hen). Proverb is one of the...
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Labor
Labor and labor history are integral to utopianism, or social dreaming of an alternative to the present. The very concept of labor—of work—is part of...
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Queer Spaces in “The Masque of the Red Death” and the Dupin Mysteries
This chapter demonstrates that, while earlier stories lack concrete depictions of the spaces in which queer lives might be lived, Poe did describe...