LEADER 00000cam a2200673Ki 4500 001 ocn861200418 003 OCoLC 005 20160527041910.4 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 131021s2013 alu ob s001 0 eng d 019 861559281 020 9780817386863|q(electronic book) 020 0817386866|q(electronic book) 020 |z9780817318031 020 |z0817318038 035 (OCoLC)861200418|z(OCoLC)861559281 040 N$T|beng|erda|epn|cN$T|dP@U|dYDXCP|dE7B|dOCLCO|dOCLCF|dCOO |dEBLCP|dOCLCO|dOCLCQ|dOCLCO 043 n-usp-- 049 RIDW 050 4 PS152|b.P57 2013eb 072 7 LIT|x004020|2bisacsh 082 04 810.9/9287|223 090 PS152|b.P57 2013eb 245 00 Playing house in the American West :|bwestern women's life narratives, 1839-1987 /|c[edited by] Cathryn Halverson. 264 1 Tuscaloosa :|bThe University of Alabama Press,|c2013. 300 1 online resource 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Playing house on the frontier: Caroline Kirkland and Louise Clappe -- "Your ex-washlady": Elinore Pruitt Stewart, the woman homesteader of Wyoming -- "Straight- made in nothing": Mary MacLane and domestic ritual -- Girls of the limberlost: Gene Stratton-Porter and Opal Whiteley -- "Wind and sun are good housekeepers": the domestic narratives of Mary Austin and Zitkala-Sa -- Camps, caves, and attics: playing house in Willa Cather's western novels -- My Great, Wide, Beautiful World: home writing as travel writing -- Eating in, eating out, and eating al Otro Lado: M.F.K. Fisher's The Gastronomical Me -- Searching for home: Jean Stafford's west -- The once and future home: Housekeeping and Anywhere but Here -- "I am going to 'play like' you have come." 520 Examining an eclectic group of western women's autobiographical texts-canonical and otherwise-Playing House in the American West argues for a distinct regional literary tradition characterized by strategic representations of unconventional domestic life. The controlling metaphor Cathryn Halverson uses in her engrossing study is "playing house." From Caroline Kirkland and Laura Ingalls Wilder to Willa Cather and Marilynne Robinson, from the mid-nineteenth to the late- twentieth centuries, western authors have persistently embraced wayward or eccentric housekeeping to. 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 650 0 Women and literature|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh85147430|zWest (U.S.)|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh85146140-781 650 0 Autobiography|xWomen authors|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh85010053|xHistory and criticism. |0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001187 650 0 Domestic space in literature.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh2008000957 650 0 Women authors, American|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh85147459|zWest (U.S.)|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh85146140-781 650 0 Women in literature.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh85147587 650 7 Women and literature.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1177093 650 7 Autobiography|xWomen authors.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/822617 650 7 Domestic space in literature.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/1903046 650 7 Women authors, American.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/ fast/1177210 650 7 Women in literature.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1177912 651 0 West (U.S.)|xIn literature.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh2008113453 655 4 Electronic books. 655 7 Criticism, interpretation, etc.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 700 1 Halverson, Cathryn,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n2003055760|eeditor. 776 08 |iPrint version:|tPlaying house in the American West |z9780817318031|w(DLC) 2013001996|w(OCoLC)825181651 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=651629|zOnline eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook|uhttp:// guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20160607|cEBSCO|tebscoebooksacademic|lridw 994 92|bRID