A(t) Home on the Frontier

Place, Narrative, and Material Culture in Caroline Kirkland and Eliza Farnham
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dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage43en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage59en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume64en_US
dc.contributor.authorMaruo-Schröder, Nicole
dc.contributor.editorBieger, Laura
dc.contributor.editorMaruo-Schröder, Nicole
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-22T13:00:49Z
dc.date.available2022-09-22T13:00:49Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractParticularly during the westward expansion, the frontier was not just a concrete site of conquest, exploration, and settlement but also a space of projection and imagination of (future) possibilities. People not only imagined the frontier in a variety of sometimes incompatible ways. They also used such imaginations to process and order their experience of the concrete, ‘real-life’ space so that the frontier becomes a space in which both, the lived and the imagined space, overlap and merge. This essay looks at how two popular antebellum writers used material objects and related cultural practices in their narrative construction of frontier space, arguing that, from this perspective, narrative space ceases to be only a property of the text and extends into the object world. Drawing on their own experience of life in the east, Caroline Kirkland and Eliza Farnham use gender- and class-based ideologies of taste and refinement to make the unknown space of the frontier meaningful and familiar, thus turning it from a mere place to live into something like a home. Such a use of material culture in the narrative construction of this space allows both writers to comment on and shape the ideological underpinnings of the frontier and, by extension, take part in the (narrative) construction of future America.en_US
dc.description.publisherNoteThis publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/zaa-2016-0005
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2316
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.issn2196-4726en_US
dc.relation.journalZeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistiken_US
dc.relation.journalaltA Quarterly of Language, Literature and Cultureen_US
dc.rightsL::The Stacks Licenseen_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:810en_US
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldliterarystudiesen_US
dc.titleA(t) Home on the Frontieren_US
dc.title.alternativePlace, Narrative, and Material Culture in Caroline Kirkland and Eliza Farnhamen_US
dc.title.specialissueSpace, Place, and Narrativeen_US
dc.typearticleen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
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