At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930.(Book review)

At Home in the City: Urban Domesticity in American Literature and Culture, 1850-1930. By Betsy Klimasmith. Lebanon: University of New Hampshire Press/University Press of New England, 2005. 312 pp. $65.00/$26.00 paper.

"Home" and the "city" are often viewed as contradictory terms in the study of American literature. In this richly argued new work, Betsy Klimasmith dismantles this opposition through readings of American urban fiction from the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries. Klimasmith shows how fictive constructions of urban space resonated ...

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