New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2017. Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers. In this new literary history, Maria DiBattista and Deborah Epstein Nord contend that even the most seemingly traditional works by British, American, and other English-language women writers redefine the domestic sphere in ways that incorporate the concerns of public life, allowing characters and authors alike to forge new, emancipatory narratives.