Archives of desire
In this study of nineteenth-century America, the author offers an interpretation of the literary movement known as American regionalism. She argues that regionalism in New England was part of a widespread woman-dominated effort to rewrite history. She demonstrates that New England regionalism [1900-1960] was an intellectual endeavor that overlapped with colonial revivalism and included fiction and history writing, antique collecting, colonial home restoration, and photography. The cohort of writers and artists leading this movement included Sarah Orne Jewett, Alice Morse Earle, and C. Alice Baker, and their project was taken up by women of a younger generation, such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, who extended regionalism through the modernist moment. The study draws on amongst others on fiction, material culture, and collecting guides.
- Creator
- Lockwood, J. Samaine