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Dicker, Rory C. "Home Repair: Reconfigurations of Domesticity in American Fiction of the 1860s," Department of English, Vanderbelt University, July 1998.
Home Repair challenges the view that nothing of literary interest, except the Civil War itself, saw print in the Civil War era. Heeding Judith Fetterley’s call for formal decade studies, this dissertation argues for the significance of the literature of the Civil War era for its powerful transformation of conceptions of domesticity. In the fiction of such popular authors as DeForest, William Wells Brown, Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard, Louisa May Alcott, Stowe, and Harte, understandings of domesticity break down, just as broken political understandings left the nation a “house divided.” By examining areas that intersect with domesticity—combat and the home front, miscegenation and racial hybridity, female expressions of sexuality, religious experience and spiritual healing, and early regionalism’s reflection of national reconstruction—this dissertation asserts that the so-called private sphere of domesticity was in fact an arena for the discussion of traditionally public issues (such as politics) and a means of injecting in to the public discourse such hushed topics as female sexuality.
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