Bowing to necessities: a history of manners in America, 1620-1860
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1. Verfasser: Hemphill, C. Dallett (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1999
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-300) and index
Part I -- Hierarchy: manners in a vertical social order, 1620-1740 - Manners for gentlemen - Manners over minors - Manners maketh men - Part II --Revolution: an opening of possibilities, 1740-1820 - Middle class rising - Youth rising - Women rising - Part III -- Resolution: manners for democrats, 1820-1860 - Manners for the middle class - Manners for adults - Ladies first?
Anglo-Americans wrestled with some profound cultural contradictions as they shifted from the hierarchical and patriarchal society of the seventeenth-century frontier to the modern and fluid class democracy of the mid-nineteenth century. How could traditional inequality be maintained in the socially leveling environment of the early colonial wilderness? And how could nineteenth-century Americans pretend to be equal in an increasingly unequal society? Bowing to Necessities argues that manners provided ritual solutions to these central cultural problems by allowing Americans to act out--and thus
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ISBN:1602563268
9781602563261
9780195352245
0195352246
9780195125573
0195125576