The Paradox of Domesticity: Resistance to the Myth of Home in Contemporary American Literature and Film
This dissertation focuses on novels and films produced in the second half of the twentieth century that critique traditional notions of home in contemporary America to expand on the large body of work on American domesticity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These texts demonstrate the dam...
Main Author: | Cox, Kimberly O'Dell |
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Other Authors: | Robinson, Sally |
Format: | Others |
Language: | en_US |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2011-05-9373 |
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