{"product_id":"9780822380412","title":"TEST1 Publishing the Family","description":"In \u003ci\u003ePublishing the Family\u003c\/i\u003e June Howard turns a study of the collaborative novel \u003ci\u003eThe Whole Family\u003c\/i\u003e into a lens through which to examine American literature and culture at the beginning of the twentieth century. Striving to do equal justice to historical particulars and the broad horizons of social change, Howard reconsiders such categories of analysis as authorship, genre, and periodization. In the process, she offers a new method for cultural studies and American studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\t\u003ci\u003ePublishing the Family\u003c\/i\u003e describes the sources and controversial outcome of a fascinating literary experiment. Howard embeds the story of \u003ci\u003eThe Whole Family\u003c\/i\u003e in the story of Harper \u0026amp; Brothers’ powerful and pervasive presence in American cultural life, treating the publisher, in effect, as an author.\u003cbr\u003e\tEach chapter of \u003ci\u003ePublishing the Family\u003c\/i\u003e casts light on some aspect of life in the United States at a moment that arguably marked the beginning of our own era. Howard revises common views of the turn-of-the-century literary marketplace and discusses the perceived crisis in the family as well as the popular and expert discourses that emerged to remedy it. She also demonstrates how creative women like \u003ci\u003eBazar \u003c\/i\u003eeditor Elizabeth Jordan blended their own ideas about the “New Woman” with traditional values. Howard places these analyses in the framework of far-reaching historical changes, such as the transformation of the public meaning of emotion and “sentimentality.” Taken together, the chapters in \u003ci\u003ePublishing the Family\u003c\/i\u003e show how profoundly the modern mapping of social life relies on boundaries between family and business, culture and commerce, which \u003ci\u003eThe Whole Family\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePublishing the Family\u003c\/i\u003e constantly unsettle.\u003cbr\u003e\t\u003ci\u003ePublishing the Family\u003c\/i\u003e will interest students and scholars of American history, literature, and culture, as well as those studying gender, sexuality, and the family.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47110740410608,"sku":"9780822380412","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780822380412_p0.jpg?v=1763751844","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822380412","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}