“To see domestic ideology as a passage in liberal humanism...demonstrates the role of domestic ideology in updating and reshaping individualism within nineteenth-century American market society...nineteenth-century American individualism takes on its peculiarly ‘individualistic’ properties as domesticity inflects it with values of interiority, privacy, and psychology.” (476)

(Brown, Gillian. “From Domestic Individualism: Imagining Self in the Nineteenth-Century America.” Theory of the Novel. Ed. Michael McKeon. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 467-475. Print.)