The Victorian Homefront: American Thought and Culture, 1860-1880 - Brossura

Stevenson, Louise L.

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ISBN 10: 0801487684 ISBN 13: 9780801487682

Casa editrice: Cornell Univ Pr, 2001

Riassunto

In The Victorian Homefront, Louise L. Stevenson offers a concise and fascinating portrait of the intellectual lives of ordinary Americans from the Civil War through Reconstruction. She begins where any Victorian would: in the parlor, with an analysis of the material trappings of middle-class self-improvement.

From parlor tables and reading chairs, albums and stereoscopes, and houseplants and fancywork, she moves to the books and reading activities that the parlor hosted and encouraged, and then outward to public institutions of learning, both informal and formal. Stevenson constructs a convincing framework for understanding the intellectual aspirations and activities of middle-class women, children, former slaves, African-American college students, and others in the context of the goals of the nineteenth-century literary and intellectual elite.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Louise L. Stevenson is Professor of History and American Studies and Chair of the Women's Studies Program at Franklin and Marshall College.

Product Description:

Book by Stevenson Louise L

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Cornell Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0801487684
• ISBN 13: 9780801487682
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 235