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Worlding Domesticity: Transnational Methodology and Jonathan Franzen's Freedom1008 views
Author
Jensen, Martin Aagaard, English - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
Advisors
Brickhouse, Anna, Department of English, University of Virginia
Abstract
This thesis examines how we might read a domestic novel, such as Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, as a transnational one. Contemporary critics have thus far characterized only those novels as transnational which include foreign characters, signs of alterity and difference or global networks. In this thesis, I engage in a methodological debate, and argue that the representation of domesticity naturally opens out to a global network, which is the very matter against which the sphere of the domestic is defined.
Degree
MA (Master of Arts)
Language
English
Rights
All rights reserved (no additional license for public reuse)
Jensen, Martin Aagaard. Worlding Domesticity: Transnational Methodology and Jonathan Franzen's Freedom. University of Virginia, English - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, MA (Master of Arts), 2014-04-28, https://doi.org/10.18130/V37H45.