Table of Contents

1. 'This great household upon the Earth'; 2. 'To be great and domestic'; 3. Azads in Concord; 4. Hawthorne's marriages; 5. Melville, Whitman, and the predicament of intimacy; 6. Literary archaeology and The Portrait of a Lady; 7. Emily Dickinson's adequate Eve; Conclusion.

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This 1990 book examines the themes of the household, of domestic virtue, and the feminine or feminized hero in American literature.