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Author Douglas, Ann, 1942-

Title The feminization of American culture / Ann Douglas.

Publication Info. New York : Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
©1977

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  810.99287 D733F    Check Shelf
Description xv, 403 pages ; 21 cm
Note Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1977. With a new preface by the author.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page [346] 388) and index.
Contents Introduction : The legacy of American Victorianism : the meaning of Little Eva -- pt. 1. The sentimentalization of status. Clerical disestablishment -- Feminine disestablishment -- Ministers and mothers : changing and exchanging roles -- pt. 2. The sentimentalization of creed and culture. The loss of theology : from dogma to fiction -- The escape from history : the static imagination -- The domestication of death : the posthumous congregation -- The periodical press : arena for hostility -- pt. 3. Protest : case studies in American romanticism : Margaret Fuller and the disavowal of fiction -- Herman Melville and the revolt against the reader -- Epilogue.
Subject American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Religion and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Calvinism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Protestantism and literature -- History -- 19th century.
Popular culture -- Religious aspects.
Sentimentalism in literature.
ISBN 0374525587 alkaline paper
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