Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Doing domesticity
  • Shelter writing: desperate housekeeping from Crusoe to Queer Eye
  • Behind the curtain: domestic industry in Mary Barton
  • Domesticity beyond sentiment: Edith Wharton, decoration, and divorce
  • Bad girls of good housekeeping: Dominique Browning and Martha Stewart
  • Undocumented houses: histories of dislocation in immigrant fiction
  • Domesticity in extremis: homemaking by the unsheltered
  • Conclusion: Dwelling-in-traveling, traveling-in-dwelling.