Sentimental Materialism : Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
Merish, Lori.
Sentimental Materialism : Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (401 pages) - New Americanists Series . - New Americanists Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Forms of Cultured Feeling -- Chapter 1. Embodying Gender: Sentimental Materialism in the New Republic -- Chapter 2. Gender, Domesticity, and Consumption in the 1830s: Caroline Kirkland, Catharine Sedgwick, and the Feminization of American Consumerism -- Chapter 3. Sentimental Consumption: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Aesthetics of Middle-Class Ownership -- Chapter 4. Domesticating "Blackness": Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, and the Decommodification of the Black Female Body -- Chapter 5. Fashioning a Free Self: Consumption, Politics, and Power in the Writings of Elizabeth Keckley and Frances Harper -- Chapter 6. Not "Just a Cigar": Commodity Culture and the Construction of Imperial Manhood -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
No detailed description available for "Sentimental Materialism".
9780822377962
Women-United States-Social life and customs-19th century.
Women consumers-United States-History-19th century.
Sex role-United States-History-19th century.
Material culture-United States-History-19th century.
Women in literature.
Material culture in literature.
Electronic books.
HQ1418
305.42/0973/09034
Sentimental Materialism : Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (401 pages) - New Americanists Series . - New Americanists Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Forms of Cultured Feeling -- Chapter 1. Embodying Gender: Sentimental Materialism in the New Republic -- Chapter 2. Gender, Domesticity, and Consumption in the 1830s: Caroline Kirkland, Catharine Sedgwick, and the Feminization of American Consumerism -- Chapter 3. Sentimental Consumption: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Aesthetics of Middle-Class Ownership -- Chapter 4. Domesticating "Blackness": Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, and the Decommodification of the Black Female Body -- Chapter 5. Fashioning a Free Self: Consumption, Politics, and Power in the Writings of Elizabeth Keckley and Frances Harper -- Chapter 6. Not "Just a Cigar": Commodity Culture and the Construction of Imperial Manhood -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
No detailed description available for "Sentimental Materialism".
9780822377962
Women-United States-Social life and customs-19th century.
Women consumers-United States-History-19th century.
Sex role-United States-History-19th century.
Material culture-United States-History-19th century.
Women in literature.
Material culture in literature.
Electronic books.
HQ1418
305.42/0973/09034