The feminization of American culture / Ann Douglas.

Author
Douglas, Ann, 1942- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©1998.
Description
xv, 403 pages ; 21 cm

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    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.
    ISBN
    • 0374525587 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780374525583 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    98016732
    OCLC
    38879279
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