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The feminization of American culture : Ann Douglas. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (c)1998.Description: xv, 403 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374525583
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS152
  • PS152.D733.F465 1998
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Contents:
part 1. The sentimentalization of status. Clerical disestablishment -- Feminine disestablishment -- Ministers and mothers : changing and exchanging roles -- part 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 -- part 3. Protest : case studies in American romanticism : Margaret Fuller and the disavowal of fiction -- Herman Melville and the revolt against the reader -- Epilogue.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction PS152.D6 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001506084

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

Introduction : The legacy of American Victorianism : the meaning of Little Eva -- part 1. The sentimentalization of status. Clerical disestablishment -- Feminine disestablishment -- Ministers and mothers : changing and exchanging roles -- part 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 -- part 3. Protest : case studies in American romanticism : Margaret Fuller and the disavowal of fiction -- Herman Melville and the revolt against the reader -- Epilogue.

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