York University

Academic Resource Center @ Levitt

Image from Coce

The feminization of American culture / Ann Douglas.

By: Publication details: New York : Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©1998.Description: xv, 403 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0374525587
  • 9780374525583
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 810.9/9287 21
LOC classification:
  • PS152 .D6 1998
Other classification:
  • HR 1520
  • 17.70
  • 18.06
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.
Summary: 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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1977. With a new preface by the author.

Includes bibliographical references (page 346 388) and index.

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.

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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.