Publishing the FamilyIn Publishing the Family June Howard turns a study of the collaborative novel The Whole Family into a lens through which to examine American literature and culture at the beginning of the twentieth century. Striving to do equal justice to historical particulars and the broad horizons of social change, Howard reconsiders such categories of analysis as authorship, genre, and periodization. In the process, she offers a new method for cultural studies and American studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Publishing the Family describes the sources and controversial outcome of a fascinating literary experiment. Howard embeds the story of The Whole Family in the story of Harper & Brothers’ powerful and pervasive presence in American cultural life, treating the publisher, in effect, as an author. Each chapter of Publishing the Family casts light on some aspect of life in the United States at a moment that arguably marked the beginning of our own era. Howard revises common views of the turn-of-the-century literary marketplace and discusses the perceived crisis in the family as well as the popular and expert discourses that emerged to remedy it. She also demonstrates how creative women like Bazar editor Elizabeth Jordan blended their own ideas about the “New Woman” with traditional values. Howard places these analyses in the framework of far-reaching historical changes, such as the transformation of the public meaning of emotion and “sentimentality.” Taken together, the chapters in Publishing the Family show how profoundly the modern mapping of social life relies on boundaries between family and business, culture and commerce, which The Whole Family and Publishing the Family constantly unsettle. Publishing the Family will interest students and scholars of American history, literature, and culture, as well as those studying gender, sexuality, and the family. |
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... Henry James by Alice Broughton , Harper's Bazar , July 1907 267 Color Plates ( between pages 114 and 115 ) Plate 1. Edward Hopper , " The Mansard Roof , " 1923 Plate 2. Cover , Harper's Bazar December 1907 Plate 3. Cover , Harper's ...
... Henry James by Alice Broughton , Harper's Bazar , July 1907 267 Color Plates ( between pages 114 and 115 ) Plate 1. Edward Hopper , " The Mansard Roof , " 1923 Plate 2. Cover , Harper's Bazar December 1907 Plate 3. Cover , Harper's ...
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... Harper's Bazar , who wrote a chapter as well . Other contributors included Henry James , Mary Wilkins Free- man , Elizabeth Stuart Phelps , Mary Heaton Vorse , and writers widely known at the time but rarely remembered today , such as ...
... Harper's Bazar , who wrote a chapter as well . Other contributors included Henry James , Mary Wilkins Free- man , Elizabeth Stuart Phelps , Mary Heaton Vorse , and writers widely known at the time but rarely remembered today , such as ...
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... Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land through Eric Lott's Love and Theft and Lisa Lowe's Immigrant Acts— that track one ... Harper's Bazar , and other closely contemporary publications and events , Introduction 3.
... Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land through Eric Lott's Love and Theft and Lisa Lowe's Immigrant Acts— that track one ... Harper's Bazar , and other closely contemporary publications and events , Introduction 3.
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... Harper's . Sometimes tensions are explicitly thematized . Howells speci- fied the conflict between individuality and ... Henry James was so distressed by what he called the sentimentality of the chapters following his that he wrote to ...
... Harper's . Sometimes tensions are explicitly thematized . Howells speci- fied the conflict between individuality and ... Henry James was so distressed by what he called the sentimentality of the chapters following his that he wrote to ...
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Contents
A Strangely Exciting Story | 13 |
Authorship and Collaboration | 21 |
Scenes of Reading and Writing | 32 |
The Hearthstone at Harpers | 58 |
A House Undivided | 59 |
A Climb up the Spiral Staircase | 77 |
Everybodys Busy Day | 88 |
The Composite Novel as Vaudeville | 101 |
Female Modernity and the Magazine | 197 |
What Is Sentimentality? | 213 |
Embodied Thoughts | 218 |
Feeling Right | 223 |
Home Sweet Home | 231 |
Feeling and Form | 241 |
Sentimentality in Circulation circa 1908 | 245 |
Closing the Book | 257 |
Making the Family Whole | 106 |
What Is a Family? | 107 |
The Fathers Family | 116 |
The Female Counterfamily | 130 |
Intimacy and Publicity | 151 |
The SometimesNew Woman | 158 |
Sex and Education | 160 |
The Subtle Syncretism of Mary Wilkins Freeman | 168 |
The Extraordinary Miss Jordan | 179 |
Culture and Commerce | 258 |
Perfect Felicity with Professional Help | 268 |
Contents and Characters of The Whole Family | 283 |
The Generations of the Family | 284 |
Notes | 285 |
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