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The feminization of American culture / Ann Douglas.
Author
Douglas, Ann, 1942-
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©1998.
Description
xv, 403 pages ; 21 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
PS152 .D6 1998
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Subject(s)
American literature
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Women authors
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History and criticism
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Feminism and literature
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United States
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History
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19th century
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Religion and literature
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United States
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History
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19th century
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Women and literature
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United States
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History
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19th century
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American literature
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19th century
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History and criticism
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Popular culture
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United States
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History
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19th century
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Calvinism
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United States
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History
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19th century
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Protestantism and literature
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History
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19th century
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Popular culture
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Sentimentalism in literature
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Summary note
Author explores the alliance, beginning in 1820, of two disenfranchised groups: the women of the middle class and the liberal Protestant clergy, both increasingly relegated to the edges of society (to the parlor, to the Sunday School, to the libraries) by the prevailing entrepreneurial forces.
Notes
Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1977. With a new preface by the author.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [346] 388) and index.
Contents
Introduction : The legacy of American Victorianism : the meaning of Little Eva
pt. 1. The sentimentalization of status. Clerical disestablishment
Feminine disestablishment
Ministers and mothers : changing and exchanging roles
pt. 2. The sentimentalization of creed and culture. The loss of theology : from dogma to fiction
The escape from history : the static imagination
The domestication of death : the posthumous congregation
The periodical press : arena for hostility
pt. 3. Protest : case studies in American romanticism : Margaret Fuller and the disavowal of fiction
Herman Melville and the revolt against the reader
Epilogue.
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ISBN
0374525587 ((alk. paper))
9780374525583 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
98016732
OCLC
38879279
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