The Feminization of American Culture
The Feminization of American Culture

Author: Ann Douglas

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1998-09-30

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 0374525587

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The Feminization of American Culture seeks to explain the values prevalent in today's mass culture by tracing them back to their roots in the Victorian era.

The Refinement of America
The Refinement of America

Author: Richard Lyman Bushman

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-09-21

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0307761606

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This lively and authoritative volume makes clear that the quest for taste and manners in America has been essential to the serious pursuit of a democratic culture. Spanning the material world from mansions and silverware to etiquette books, city planning, and sentimental novels, Richard L. Bushman shows how a set of values originating in aristocratic court culture gradually permeated almost every stratum of American society and served to prevent the hardening of class consciousness. A work of immense and richly nuanced learning, The Refinement of America newly illuminates every facet of both our artifacts and our values.