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A Token of My Affection : Greeting Cards and American Business Culture /
Each year in the United States, millions of mass-produced greeting cards proclaim their occasional messages: "For My Loving Daughter," "On the Occasion of Your Marriage," and "It's a Boy!" For more than 150 years, greeting cards have tapped into and organized a sha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[2004]
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| Colección: | Princeton Classic Editions
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Structured Feelings amid Circulations of the Heart
- 1. Vicious Sentiments. Nineteenth-Century Valentines and the Sentimental Production of Class Boundaries
- 2. The Nineteenth-Century Christmas Card. The Chromo-Reproduction of Sentimental Value
- 3. Corporate Sentiment. The Rise of the Twentieth-Century Greeting Card Industry and the American Culture of Business
- 4. Condensation, Displacement, and Masquerade. The Dream-Work of Greeting Cards
- 5. Knitting the Social Lace. The Use of Greeting Cards
- 6. All This Senseless Rationality. Beyond the End of the Modern Era of Greeting Cards
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index