Amy Richter
At Home in Nineteenth-Century America: A Documentary History
- ISBN 13:
- 9780814769140
- author:
- Amy Richter
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- NYU Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2015
- Pages:
- 268
- Dimensions:
- 1.9 x 15.2 x 22.2 cm
- Genre:
- Society, Politics & Philosophy, Social Sciences, Communication Studies
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The home was a central institution in nineteenth-century American culture, emerging as a sentimental space apart from the public world of commerce and politics. This concept of home transcended its initial association with the private lives of the white, native-born bourgeoisie to cross lines of race, ethnicity, class, and region. At Home in Nineteenth-Century America draws upon a range of sources, including advice manuals, architectural designs, personal accounts, popular fiction, advertising images, and reform literature, to explore the variety of places Americans called home. From middle-class suburban houses to slave cabins, working-class tenements, frontier dugouts, and urban settlement houses, this book examines the shifting interpretations and experiences of these spaces from within and without. By revisiting the past, this book encourages us to view our own conversation about home in a new light, appreciating the lingering imprint of past ideals on our contemporary understanding of this fundamental concept.
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