Stirring the pot : the kitchen and domesticity in the fiction of southern women / Laura Sloan Patterson.

"This work looks closely at a wide variety of Southern domestic literature, focusing particularly on the role of the family kitchen as a driving force in the narratives of Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lee Smith, and Toni Morrison"--Provided by publisher.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Patterson, Laura Sloan, 1974-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Co., [2008]
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Table of Contents:
  • From courtship to kitchen. Radical domesticity in twentieth-century southern women's fiction
  • Ellen Glasgow's "sacred inner circle" of domestic isolation
  • Sexing the domestic. Eudora Welty's Delta wedding and the sexology movement
  • Trains, letters, and pickled peppers. Lee Smith and the effect of railway unification on Appalachian domesticity
  • "No place like and no place but home". Domestic resistance in Toni Morrison's Paradise, Jazz, and Love
  • Betty Crocker, Betty Friedan, and the techno-southern belles. Reading the online kitchen.