At Home in the World – Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present

"An ambitious and engaging literary history, At Home in the World paints an exhilarating panorama of British, American, and postcolonial women writers' interventions in public debates on an array of important issues. With its clear, lively style, this magisterial account will be welcomed by scholars, critics, and discerning readers of writers from Jane Austen to Edwidge Danticat."--Christine Froula, Northwestern University

"Pointedly fresh, this is an excellent literary history with a provocative and revealing sweep. Arguing that women's writing since Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen has been an adventure of escape from the domestic sphere, DiBattista and Nord provide an education in how women have shaped and reshaped the novel. At Home in the World deserves to have a wide audience."--Robert L. Caserio, Pennsylvania State University