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"Let us only take it as we should": the role of domesticity in Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Lot".

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From: ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
Date: 20030601
Author:Booher, Mischelle

   And so I am to write a story--but of what, and where? Shall it be 
   radiant with the sky of Italy? or eloquent with the beau ideal of 
   Greece? Shall it breathe odor and languor from the orient, or 
   chivalry from the occident? or gayety from France? or vigor from 
   England? No, no; these are all too old--too romance-like--too 
   obviously picturesque for me. No; let me turn to my own land--my 
   own New England; the land of bright fires and strong hearts; the 
   land of deeds, and not of words; the land of fruits, and  not of 
   flowers; the land often spoken against, yet ...

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