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Stegner's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is the story of four generations in the life of an American family. A wheelchair-bound retired historian embarks on a monumental quest: to come to know his grandparents, now long dead. The unfolding drama of the story of the American West sets the tone for Stegner's masterpiece. Four generations in the life of an American family are chronicled as retired historian Lyman Ward, confined to a wheelchair, decides to write his grandparent's history. The Pulitzer Prize-winning classic has been selected by the board of the Modern Library as one of the best hundred novels of the 20th century.

Adultery --- Adultery. --- Aged. --- Couples mariés --- Disabled Persons. --- Domestic fiction. --- Domestic fiction. --- Elderly --- Family life --- Fictional Works [Publication Type]. --- Grandparents --- Grandparents. --- Grands-parents --- Historians --- Historians. --- Married people --- Married people. --- Older people --- Older people. --- Older people. --- People with disabilities --- People with disabilities. --- People with disabilities. --- Personnes handicapées --- Personnes handicapées. --- Personnes âgées --- Personnes âgées. --- Roman familial. --- elderly. --- California --- California --- California. --- Californie

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At a time when sectional conflicts were dividing the nation, five best-selling southern domestic novelists vigorously came to the defense of their native region. In response to northern criticism, Caroline Gilman, Caroline Hentz, Maria McIntosh, Mary Virginia Terhune, and Augusta Jane Evans presented through their fiction what they believed to be the "true" South. From the mid-1830s through 1866, these five novelists wrote about an ordered South governed by the. Aristocratic ethic of noblesse oblige, and argued that slavery was part of a larger system of reciprocal relationships that made southern society the moral superior of the individualistic North. Scholars have typically approached the domestic novel as a national rather than a regional phenomenon, assuming that because practically all domestic fiction was written by and for women, the elements of all domestic novels are essentially identical. Elizabeth Moss corrects that. Simplification, locating Gilman, Hentz, McIntosh, Terhune, and Evans within the broader context of antebellum social and political culture and establishing their lives and works as important sources of information concerning the attitudes of southerners, particularly southern women, toward power and authority within their society. Moss's study of the novels of these women challenges the "transhistorical view" of women's history and integrates women into the larger. Context of antebellum southern history. Domestic Novelists in the Old South shows that whereas northern readers and writers of domestic fiction may have been interested in changing their society, their southern counterparts were concerned with strengthening and sustaining the South's existing social structure. But the southern domestic novelists did more than reiterate the ideology of the ruling class; they also developed a compelling defense of slavery in terms of. Southern culture that reflected their perceptions of southern society and women's place within it. Just how strong an impact these books had cannot be precisely determined, but Moss argues that at the height of their popularity, the five novelists were able to reach a broader audience than male apologists. In spite of their literary and historical significance, Caroline Gilman, Caroline Hentz, Maria McIntosh, Mary Virginia Terhune, and Augusta Jane Evans have received. Scant scholarly attention. Moss shows that the lives and works of these five women illuminate the important role domestic novelists played in the ideological warfare of the day. Writing in the language of domesticity, they appealed to the women of America, using the images of home and hearth to make a persuasive case for antebellum southern culture.

Etats du Sud (Etats-Unis) dans la littérature --- Famille dans la littérature --- Family in literature --- Gezin in de literatuur --- Southern States -- In literature --- Southern States in literature --- Zuidelijke Staten (Verenigde Staten) in de literatuur --- American fiction --- Domestic fiction, American --- Families in literature --- Home in literature --- Women and literature --- Literature --- American literature --- Women authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- History --- Southern States --- In literature. --- Domestic fiction [American ] --- 19th century --- Women authors --- Terhune, Mary Virginia --- Evans, Augusta Jane

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Domestic fiction, French --- Dwellings in literature --- Families in literature --- Home in literature --- Roman familial français --- Habitations dans la littérature --- Familles dans la littérature --- Foyer dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Colette, --- Knowledge --- France --- Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye --- Connaissances --- Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye (France) in literature --- Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye (France) --- Saint-Sauveur-en-Puysaye (France) dans la littérature --- Saint-Sauveur-en-Puysaye (France) --- Buildings structures, etc --- Monuments --- Dwellings in literature. --- Family in literature. --- Home in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- In literature. --- Roman familial français --- Habitations dans la littérature --- Familles dans la littérature --- Foyer dans la littérature --- Saint-Sauveur-en-Puysaye (France) dans la littérature --- Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye. --- Domestic fiction, French - History and criticism. --- Colette, - 1873-1954 - Knowledge - Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye (France) --- Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye (France) - Buildings, structures, etc. --- Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye (France) - In literature. --- Colette, - 1873-1954