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Domesticity and Nationalism in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Agnes of Sorrento

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From: Legacy
Date: 19981031
Author:Anonymous

In a letter published as a preface to her novel Agnes of Sorrento (1862), Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote, "The story was a child of love in its infancy, and its flowery Italian cradle rocked it with an indulgent welcome." Although Stowe's prefatory remark invokes the by-now familiar thematics of domesticity that inform much of her work, this essay undertakes to explore the complications suggested by the flowery Italian cradle. The centrality of the home in Stowe's fiction, especially Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), has been well established in recent criticism.(1) Gillian Brown, in her essay "Getting ...

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