Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-191) and index.
Contents
We other Victorians: domesticity and modern professionalism -- Domesticity, cultivation, and vocation in Jane Addams and Sarah Orne Jewett -- Situated expertise: Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Pauline Hopkins, and the NACW -- Naturalist sentimentalism and cultural authority in Frank Norris and George Santayana -- "Going over to the standard": the paradoxes of objectivity in Ida Tarbell and Willa Cather -- Objective domestic critique: anthropology and social reform in Ruth Benedict and Zora Neale Hurston.