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The negotiation inside : historical upheaval and domestic space

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    Creator (cre): Weld, Linnaea Rose
    Advisor (adv): Snow, Donald
    Advisor (adv): McDermott, Lydia
    Department (dpt): Whitman College. Environmental Humanities
    Date
    May 10, 2016
    Graduation Year
    2016
    Abstract

    There appears to be a pattern of literary domestic spaces holding historical tension between past and present. In this project, I examine three novels of historical upheaval: Angle of Repose, O Pioneers!, and The Optimist's Daughter. I examine these domestic spaces through three main lenses of domestic space: spatiality, gender, and nostalgia. Ultimately, I find that domestic spaces exist in literature of upheaval to make historical tension visible, through characters, enclosure, and nests.

    Subject
    Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993 -- Angle of Repose
    Cather, Willa -- O pioneers!
    Welty, Eudora -- Optimist’s daughter
    Domestic space in literature
    Women in literature -- 20th century
    Nostalgia -- United States -- History
    Environmental sciences
    Humanities
    Academic theses
    Whitman College 2016 -- Dissertation collection -- Environmental Humanities
    Geographic Subject
    United States
    Genre
    Theses
    Extent
    61 pages
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    http://works.whitman.edu/306
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