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As Nice a Little Saleswoman, As I Am a Housewife”

Domesticity, Education, and Separate Spheres in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables

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ID8895147
AuthorsKelly Masterson (corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume48
Issue2
Pages191-209
Publication date2017-09-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/cras.2017.020
OpenAlexW2757830052
LanguageEN
References cited14

This article considers Nathaniel Hawthorne's intervention into the separate spheres ideology in The House of the Seven Gables. By depicting Phoebe Pyncheon's domestic and industrial skills, Hawthorne raises the possibility of women successfully negotiating the business world but contains them within the home by merging marketplace values and domestic education principles

Aesthetics · Art · Housewife · Ideology · Intervention (counseling · Literature · Negotiation · Political science · Separate spheres · Sociology · American and British Literature Analysis · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology

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