{"product_id":"oceans-at-home-melissa-gniadek-9781625345738","title":"Oceans at Home: Maritime and Domestic Fictions in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing","description":"The maritime world was central to nineteenth-century America, and ideas about the ocean, seafaring, and encounters with distant peoples and places suffused the cultural imagination. Women writers who were not mariners themselves incorporated oceanic representations and concerns into their work, often through genres that were generally not associated with the sea, such as children's fiction, diaries, and female coming-of-age stories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMelissa Gniadek explores the role of the ocean, with particular attention to the Pacific, in a diverse range of literary texts spanning the late 1820s through the mid-1860s from Lydia Maria Child, Caroline Kirkland, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stoddard, and Harriet Prescott Spofford.\u003ci\u003e Oceans at Home \u003c\/i\u003eshows that authors employed maritime plots and stories from distant locations to probe contemporary concerns facing the continental United States, ranging from issues of gender restrictions in the domestic sphere to the racial prejudices against indigenous peoples that lay at the heart of settler colonialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Melissa Gniadek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1625345739\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781625345738\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Massachusetts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Melissa Gniadek","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48445451763967,"sku":"9781625345738","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_46500add-f97a-42d6-a908-5b7743319fd4.jpg?v=1777218636","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/oceans-at-home-melissa-gniadek-9781625345738","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}