Interweaves literary and publishing histories around the collaborative novel THE WHOLE FAMILY in order to explore categories of readers and writers in the U.S. during the first two decades of the twentieth-century
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Interweaves literary and publishing histories around the collaborative novel THE WHOLE FAMILY in order to explore categories of readers and writers in the U.S. during the first two decades of the twentieth-century
Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-329) and index
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. ''A Strangely Exciting Story''; How It Began; Authorship and Collaboration; Scenes of Readingand Writing; 2. The Hearthstone at Harper's; Harper's and Antebellum Print Culture: A House Undivided; Harper'sand Postbellum Print Culture: ''A Climb up the Spiral Staircase''; Harper's in the New Century: ''Everybody's Busy Day''; A FamilyPerformance: The Composite Novel as Vaudeville; 3. Making the Family Whole; What Is a Family?; The Father's Family; The Female Counter-family; Intimacy and Publicity; 4. The Sometimes-New Woman
Sex and EducationThe Subtle Syncretism of Mary Wilkins Freeman ; The Extraordinary Miss Jordan; Female Modernity and the Magazine; 5. What Is Sentimentality?; Embodied Thoughts; Feeling Right; Home Sweet Home; Feeling andForm; Sentimentality in Circulation, circa 1908; 6. Closing the Book; Culture and Commerce; Perfect Felicity (with Professional Help); Appendix 1. Contents and Characters of TheWhole Family; Appendix 2. The Generations of the ''Family''; Notes; References; Index
