The Art of Retreat

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LAUREL V. HANKINS is an associate professor in the Department of English and Communication at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where she teaches courses on literary theory and early and nineteenth-century American literature. Her recent work can be found in journals such as Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life and Nineteenth-Century Literature and in the edited collection The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art (Bucknell University Press).

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The Art of Retreat examines the ideal of domestic retreat as it first emerges as a political and cultural fantasy in the early United States. Reconstructing a spectrum of alternative precedents to the familiar ideology of domesticity, this book upends our gendered narratives of nineteenth century literary culture.