@article{bibcite_8232,
  author = {Joanne E. Passet},
  title = {Reading Hilda{\textquoteright}s Home: Gender, Print Culture, and the Dissemination of Utopian Thought in Late-Nineteenth-Century America},
  abstract = {<p>American women published dozens of utopian novels between 1836 and 1900, yet little is known about the readers who consumed them. Hilda{\textquoteright}s Home first appeared as a serialized story in Lucifer, the Light-Bearer, a weekly filled with letters from rural and working-class readers troubled by the social ills caused by late-nineteenth-century industrialization and urbanization. Adopting a reader-centered perspective, this essay explores the novel{\textquoteright}s publication history and readers{\textquoteright} responses to its author{\textquoteright}s vision of cooperative households, sexual equality, and scientific breeding. The testimony of Hilda{\textquoteright}s Home readers confirms that novels did play an important role in transmitting nineteenth-century utopian visions to rural and working-class readers and that those readers recognized print culture{\textquoteright}s power as a tool for achieving social change.</p>},
  year = {2005},
  journal = {Libraries \& Culture},
  volume = {40},
  pages = {307-323},
  language = {English},
}