Description: Unlike studies of 19th-century culture that perpetuate a dichotomy of a public, male world set against a private, female world, Lora Romero's HOME FRONTS shows the many, sometimes contradictory, cultural planes on which struggles for authority unfolded in antebellum America. HOME FRONTS revises the terms of debate on 19th-century literature, history, and gender studies.
Review Quotes: "A landmark book in the effort to reconsider the structures of domesticity in nineteenth-century America. Home Fronts is dazzling."--Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University