Brown, Gillian.

Domestic individualism : imagining self in nineteenth-century America / Gillian Brown. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c1990. - xiv, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - The New historicism ; 14 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-249) and index.

0520067851 (cloth)


Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 --Political and social views.
Hawthorne, Nathanial, 1804-1864 --Political and social views.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 --Political and social views.


Domestic fiction, American--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Individualism in literature.
Self in literature.

PS374.D57 / B7 1990

813/.309