Fictions of Western American Domesticity Maggie Greenwood-Robinson Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter

Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter

rural life with big-city life

theories and empirical data

Cycling emerged as a sport in the late 1870s

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Fictions of Western American Domesticity Maggie Greenwood-Robinson Nancy Lee Chalfa RuyterThis work provides a compelling explanation of something that has bedeviled a number of feminist scholars: Why did popular authors like Edna Ferber continue to write conventional fiction while living lives that were far from conventional? Amanda J. Zink argues that white writers like Ferber and Willa Cather avoided the subject of their own domestic labor by writing about the performance of domestic labor by "others," showing that American print