At Home in the World: Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present Tapa dura - 2017 - 2nd Edición

"Someone once said that there are only two plots in all of literature. You go on a journey or a stranger comes to town. For centuries women, denied the journey, had to await the stranger. But that has been changing for a long time, as At Home in the World makes compellingly clear. While the struggle between home and away is never easily won, more and more women find that they can go on the journey. At Home in the World will serve to enrich and deepen our understanding of feminist literature."--Mary Morris, author of The Jazz Palace

"An ambitious and engaging literary history, At Home in the World paints an exhilarating panorama of British, American, and postcolonial women writers' interventions in public debates on an array of important issues. With its clear, lively style, this magisterial account will be welcomed by scholars, critics, and discerning readers of writers from Jane Austen to Edwidge Danticat."--Christine Froula, Northwestern University

"Pointedly fresh, this is an excellent literary history with a provocative and revealing sweep. Arguing that women's writing since Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen has been an adventure of escape from the domestic sphere, DiBattista and Nord provide an education in how women have shaped and reshaped the novel. At Home in the World deserves to have a wide audience."--Robert L. Caserio, Pennsylvania State University