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Author : Thomas J. Schlereth
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780060921606
A valuable and compelling portrait of the daily life of Americans during the Victorian era--the fourth volume in the Everyday Life in America series
Author : Geoffrey Blodgett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : United States
ISBN : 0812277139
The contributors cover such seminal topics as modernization, American intellectuals, the origins of the reform movement, the beginnings of the voluntary hospital, literature, and, ultimately, the attack on Victorianism that took place in the early years of the twentieth-century.
Author : Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
Publisher : Galaxy Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195040395
This first collection of essays by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, one of the leading historians of women, is a landmark in women's studies. Focusing on the "disorderly conduct" women and some men used to break away from the Victorian Era's rigid class and sex roles, it examines the dramatic changes in male-female relations, family structure, sex, social custom, and ritual that occurred as colonial America was transformed by rapid industrialization. Included are two now classic essays on gender relations in 19th-century America, "The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America" and "The New Woman as Androgyne: Social Order and Gender Crisis, 1870-1936," as well as Smith-Rosenberg's more recent work, on abortion, homosexuality, religious fanatics, and revisionist history. Throughout Disorderly Conduct, Smith-Rosenberg startles and convinces, making us re-evaluate a society we thought we understood, a society whose outward behavior and inner emotional life now take on a new meaning.
Author : Wendell Garrett
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 0789300257
Principal photography by Paul Rocheleau. "Knowledgeable descriptions of the houses & their interiors."--Chicago Tribune.
Author : Anne C. Rose
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521478839
Anne Rose examines the relationship between American Victorian culture and the Civil War, arguing that Romanticism was at the heart of Victorian culture.
Author : Wayne Erbsen
Publisher : Native Ground Music
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1883206545
Manners & Morals of Victorian America is your gateway to the fashionable world of Victorian America. It draws from the wealth of late 19th and early twentieth etiquette books. With over 400 historic engravings and illustrations, the book details virtually every aspect of Victorian life, including the proper conduct for courtship and wooing, duties of husbands and wives, how to deal with a rejected suitor and even carriage and motoring manners. 7x10, 180 pages.
Author : Elisha Charles Hussey
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0486280659
Handsome collection of mid-Victorian home designs reprinted from rare 1874 catalog. Floor plans, elevations, front views, more. 27 designs on 63 plates. Introductory text and specifications.
Author : Ellen M. Plante
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816033927
Gives a portrait of typical middle-class life in Victorian American ; examines the material culture of the Victorian era and the growth of Victorianism.
Author : Thomas J. Schlereth
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015021986248
Perspectives on American lifestyles and the impact of technology, communications, and transportation between 1876 and 1915.
Author : Cindy Sondik Aron
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Civil service
ISBN : 9780195048742
Drawing from workers' applications, testimonies, and other primary documents, this book examines the changing roles of federal civil servants during the crucial period between 1860 and 1900 as they formed part of the first white-collar bureaucracy in the United States.
Author : Mark Christopher Carnes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300051468
In this study of American 19th-century secret orders, the author argues that religious practices and gender roles became increasingly feminized in Victorian America and that secret societies, such as the Freemasons, offered men and boys an alternative, male counterculture.
Author : Colleen McDannell
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253113566
"... wonderfully imaginative and provocative in its interdisciplinary approach to the study of nineteenth-century American religion and women's role within it."Â -- Choice "... an important addition to the fields of religious studies, women's history, and American cultural history." -- Journal of the American Academy of Religion "... a complete and complex portrait of the Christian home." -- The Journal of American History
Author : Robert Joki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Historic buildings
ISBN : 188378915X
World-famous as the Queen of Spas, Saratoga Springs entered a golden age in the Victorian years and the world flocked to its doorstep every summer. The rich and famous rubbed elbows with a growing post-Civil War middle class popularizing a new concept, the summer vacation. They came ostensibly to take the waters at the bubbling mineral springs, but what they really came for was to see and be seen on the grand piazzas of the magnificent, colossal hotels that lined Saratoga's Broadway, and to share in the limelight of glittering balls and fabulous parties.The grace and opulence of America's Victorian era faded with the dawn of the twentieth century, and almost all of the buildings and views in this book have long since disappeared in clouds of dust from the wrecker's ball or in spectacular cataclysmic infernos, but in Saratoga Lost, Robert Joki takes the reader on a guided tour of that grand era with hundreds of historic photographs from the author's extraordinary private collection, complemented, by period artwork.
Author : Leslie Butler
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0807877573
In this intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the nineteenth century, Leslie Butler examines a group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers who sustained an American tradition of self-consciously progressive and cosmopolitan reform. She addresses how these men established a critical perspective on American racism, materialism, and jingoism in the decades between the 1850s and the 1890s while she recaptures their insistence on the ability of ordinary citizens to work toward their limitless potential as intelligent and moral human beings. At the core of Butler's study are the writers George William Curtis, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, James Russell Lowell, and Charles Eliot Norton, a quartet of friends who would together define the humane liberalism of America's late Victorian middle class. In creative engagement with such British intellectuals as John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold, Leslie Stephen, John Ruskin, James Bryce, and Goldwin Smith, these "critical Americans" articulated political ideals and cultural standards to suit the burgeoning mass democracy the Civil War had created. This transatlantic framework informed their notions of educative citizenship, print-based democratic politics, critically informed cultural dissemination, and a temperate, deliberative foreign policy. Butler argues that a careful reexamination of these strands of late nineteenth-century liberalism can help enrich a revitalized liberal tradition at the outset of the twenty-first century.
Author : Mary Klages
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512807899
From Tiny Tim to Helen Keller, disabled people in the nineteenth century were portrayed in sentimental terms, as afflicted beings whose sufferings afforded ablebodied people opportunities to practice empathy and compassion. In all kinds of representations of disability, from popular fiction to the reports of institutions established for the education and rehabilitation of disabled people, the equation of disability and sentimentality served a variety of social functions, from ensuring the continued existence of a sympathetic sensibility in a hard-hearted, market-driven world, to asserting the selfhood and equality of disabled adults. Unique in its focus on blindness and its examination of the interplay between institutional discourse and popular literature, Woeful Afflictions offers a detailed historical analysis of the types of cultural work performed by sentimental representations of disability in public reports and lectures, exhibitions, novels, stories, poems, autobiographical writings, and popular media portrayals from the 1830s through the 1890s in the United States. Woeful Afflictions combines contemporary scholarship on sentimentalism with the most recent works on the cultural meanings of disability to argue that sentimentalism, with its emphasis on creating emotional identifications between texts and readers, both reinforces existing associations between disability and otherness and works to rewrite those associations in portraying disabled people, in their emotional capacities, as no different from the ablebodied. This book will interest anyone concerned with disability studies and the social construction of the body, with the history of education and of public institutional care in the United States, and with autobiographical writings.