Domestic Happiness Portrayed
Author : William M. Dunning
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Page : 456 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 1835
Category : Marriage
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Author : William M. Dunning
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Page : 456 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 1835
Category : Marriage
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Author : Christopher Flint
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 30,50 MB
Release : 2002-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804741880
By revealing the investment of eighteenth-century British prose fiction in contemporary debates about domestic ideology, this book addresses the multiple ways in which traditional notions of the family were estranged, reconstituted as novel concepts, and then finally presented as national social norms. It focuses on works by Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Eliza Haywood, Horace Walpole, Laurence Sterne, and Mary Wollstonecraft, addressing a number of narratives that historians of the novel have overlooked while linking such better-known works as Robinson Crusoe and Pamela to their often neglected sequels. Challenging competing critical claims that the household either experienced a revolution in form or that it remained essentially unchanged, the author argues that eighteenth-century writers employed a set of complementary strategies to refashion the symbolic and affective power of bourgeois domesticity. Whether these writers regarded the household as a supplement to such other social institutions as the Church or the monarchy, or as a structure resisting these institutions, they affirmed the family's central role in managing civil behavior. At a time, however, when the middle class was beginning to scrutinize itself as a distinct social entity, its most popular form of literature reveals that many felt alienated from the most intimate and yet explosive of social experiences--family life. Prose fiction sought to channel these disturbingly fluid domestic feelings, yet was in itself haunted by the specter of unregulated affect. Recovering the period's own disparate perceptions of household relations, the book explains how eighteenth-century British prose fiction, which incorporates elements from conduct books, political treatises, and demographic material, used the family as an instrumental concept in a struggle to resolve larger cultural tensions at the same time it replicated many of the rifts within contemporary family ideology.
Author : Thomas Augst
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 2020-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 022679573X
Thousands of men left their families for the bustling cities of nineteenth-century America, where many of them found work as clerks. The Clerk's Tale recounts their remarkable story, describing the struggle of aspiring businessmen to come of age at the dawn of the modern era. How did these young men understand the volatile world of American capitalism and make sense of their place within it? Thomas Augst follows clerks as they made their way through the boarding houses, parlors, and offices of the big city. Tracing the course of their everyday lives, Augst shows how these young men used acts of reading and writing to navigate the anonymous world of market culture and claim identities for themselves within it. Clerks, he reveals, calculated their prospects in diaries, composed detailed letters to friends and family, attended lectures by key thinkers of the day, joined libraries where they consumed fiction, all while wrestling with the boredom of their work. What results, then, is a poignant look at the literary practices of ordinary people and an affecting meditation on the moral lives of men in antebellum America.
Author : Springfield City Library Association (Springfield, Mass.)
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Page : 696 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Libraries
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Author : Peoria Public Library
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Page : 240 pages
File Size : 16,99 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Library catalogs
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Author : New York (N.Y.). Mercantile Library Association
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 39,69 MB
Release : 1837
Category : Classified catalogs
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Author : Mercantile library assoc New York
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Page : 392 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 1837
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Author : Alison F. Slade
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,62 MB
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0739185659
Reality television remains a pervasive form of television programming within our culture. The new mantra is go big or go home, be weird or be invisible. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty, for example,are arguably two of the most compelling reality television programs currently airing because of their uniqueness and ability to transcend traditional boundaries in this genre. Reality Television: Oddities of Culture seeks to explore not the mundane reality programs, but rather those programs that illustrate the odd, unique or peculiar aspects of our society. This anthology will explore such programs across the categories of culture, gender, and celebrity.
Author : Yale University. Society of Brothers in Unity
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Page : 242 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 1846
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Page : 630 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 1846
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