American Domesticity: From How-To Manual to Hollywood Melodrama

Contents......Page 10
INTRODUCTION: Swept Away: The Truth about Dirt......Page 14
I: HOUSEKEEPING BY THE BOOK......Page 24
ONE: Housekeeping by the Book: From Hints to Home Economics......Page 26
TWO: Making Home, Making Nation: Catharine Beecher\'s Domestic Economy......Page 46
THREE: Tayloring the Home: The Fantasy of Domestic Engineering......Page 71
II: HOUSEKEEPING IN HOLLYWOOD......Page 90
FOUR: Silent Film, Silent Work: Early Cinema and the Domestic Melodramas of D. W. Griffith......Page 92
FIVE: Lessons in Labor and Love: The Melodramatic Imperatives of Hollywood Housekeeping......Page 119
SIX: The Labor of Maternal Melodramas: Converting Angels to Icons......Page 141
III: HOUSEKEEPING AGAINST THE GRAIN......Page 162
SEVEN: Housekeeping against the Grain: Feminist Domesticity\'s Visible Style......Page 164
EIGHT: Converting Melodrama to Manifesto: A Question of Silence......Page 180
NINE: Experimental Domesticities: Patricia Gruben\'s The Central Character and Zeinabu Davis\'s Cycles......Page 189
EPILOGUE......Page 202
Notes......Page 206
Bibliography......Page 228
A......Page 238
C......Page 239
D......Page 240
F......Page 241
H......Page 242
K......Page 243
P......Page 244
S......Page 245
W......Page 246