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At home in nineteenth-century America : a documentary history /

"Few institutions were as central to nineteenth-century American culture as the home. Emerging in the 1820s as a sentimental space apart from the public world of commerce and politics, the Victorian home transcended its initial association with the private lives of the white, native-born bourge...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Richter, Amy G. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; London : New York University Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: at home in nineteenth-century America
  • The emergence of the nineteenth-century domestic ideal
  • The persistence of domestic labor
  • Home, civilization, and citizenship
  • The American home on the move in the age of expansion
  • At home in the late nineteenth-century city
  • Dismantling the Victorian ideal and the future of domesticity.