"Housekeeping Hereafter"
| Title | "Housekeeping Hereafter" |
| Year for Search | 1881 |
| Authors | Sears, J[ohn] V[an der Zee](1835-1926) |
| Tertiary Authors | Sears, J. V. |
| Secondary Title | The Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA) |
| Volume / Edition | 48.287 |
| Pagination | 331-338 |
| Date Published | September 1881 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | Technological eutopia applied to the home, with every home connected by pneumatic tubes to a “domestic depot” with goods ordered by telephone and shipped immediately. Sees the family as the fundamental social unit. Sears had been educated at Brook Farm and wrote about his time there. See his My Friends at Brook Farm. New York: Desmond FitzGerald, Inc., 1912. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975. For context and an analysis, see Robert Hardy, “‘Housekeeping Hereafter’: The Preservation of Domesticity in a Technological Utopia.” Utopian Studies 13.2 (2002): 53-66. |
| Holding Institutions | Hathi |
| Author Note | (1835-1926) |
| Full Text | 1881 Sears, J[ohn] V[an der Zee] (1835-1926). “Housekeeping Hereafter.” The Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA) 48.287 (September 1881): 331-338. Hathi US Technological eutopia applied to the home, with every home connected by pneumatic tubes to a “domestic depot” with goods ordered by telephone and shipped immediately. Sees the family as the fundamental social unit. Sears had been educated at Brook Farm and wrote about his time there. See his My Friends at Brook Farm. New York: Desmond FitzGerald, Inc., 1912. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975. For context and an analysis, see Robert Hardy, “‘Housekeeping Hereafter’: The Preservation of Domesticity in a Technological Utopia.” Utopian Studies 13.2 (2002): 53-66. |
