Format:
X, 403 S.
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25 cm
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Reproduktion Also issued online
ISBN:
0394405323
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9780394405322
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: The legacy of American Victorianism: the meaning of little EvaPart One: The sentimentalization of status -- Clerical disestablishment -- Feminine disestablishment -- Ministers and mothers: changing and exchanging roles -- Part Two: 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 -- Part Three: Protest: case studies in American romanticism -- Margaret Fuller and the disavowal of fiction -- Herman Melville and the revolt against the reader -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Alphabetical listing of women and ministers -- Appendix B: Chronological listing of women and ministers.
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Also issued online.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Feminization of American culture
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
;
Frauenliteratur
;
Frauenbild
;
Geschichte 1820-1875
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