Title
- The Anchor Library Of Sociology
Attribution
Ann DouglasPublication Details
BookAnchor Press/Doubleday1988Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS152 .D6 1988 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Description
The Feminization of American Culture seeks to explain the values prevalent in today’s popular culture by tracing them back to their roots in Victorian times. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- American literature — Women authors — History and criticism
- Feminism and literature — United States — History — 19th century
- Religion and literature — United States — History — 19th century
- Women and literature — United States — History — 19th century
- American literature — 19th century — History and criticism
- Popular culture — United States — History — 19th century
- Calvinism — United States — History — 19th century
- Protestantism and literature — History — 19th century
- Popular culture — Religious aspects
- Sentimentalism in literature
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Notes
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1977. With new introd
- Includes index
Contents
- Introduction: The legacy of American Victorianism : the meaning of Little Eva
- pt. 1. The sentimentalization of status: Clerical disesteablishment ; 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 if fiction ; Herman Melville and the revolt against the reader
- Epilogue
ISBN
- 0385242417
- 9780385242417
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