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Sentimental materialism : gender, commodity culture, and nineteenth-century American literature /
In Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Taking as her starting point a diversity of cultural artifacts--from domestic fiction and philosophical treatises to advice literature and ci...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
2000.
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| Colección: | New Americanists.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The Forms of Cultured Feeling
- 1. Embodying Gender: Sentimental Materialism in the New Republic
- 2. Gender, Domesticity, and Consumption in the 1830s: Caroline Kirkland, Catharine Sedgwick, and the Feminization of American Consumerism
- 3. Sentimental Consumption: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Aesthetics of Middle-Class Ownership
- 4. Domesticating "Blackness": Harret Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, and the Decommodification of the Black Female Body
- 5. Fashioning a Free Self: Consumption, Politics, and Power in the Writings of Elizabeth Keckley and Frances Harper
- 6. Not "Just a Cigar": Commodity Culture and the Construction of Imperial Manhood.