Author: Timothy Shay ArthurPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Advice to Young Men on Their Duties and Conduct in Life
Author: Timothy Shay ArthurPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Advice to Young Ladies on Their Duties and Conduct in Life
Author: Timothy Shay ArthurPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Advertisement for this book, on p. [207]: In his introduction, the author says "Right modes of thinking are the basis of all correct action. This is just as true of one sex as the other. Although man has the power of abstract thought, and the faculty of reasoning, in a higher degree than woman, yet woman is none the less a rational being, and must, in all the various relations in life, come under the guidance of right reason."
Advice to Young Ladies on Their Duties and Conduct in Life
Author: Timothy Shay ArthurPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Advice to Young Men
Author: William CobbettPublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Poems of Ossian
Author: Confidence Men and Painted Women
Author: Karen HalttunenPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300037883
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Karen Halttunen draws a vivid picture of the social and cultural development of the upwardly mobile middle class, basing her study on a survey of the conduct manuals and fashion magazines of mid-nineteenth-century America. "An ingenious book: original, inventive, resourceful, and exciting. ... This book adds immeasurably to the current work on sentimental culture and American cultural history and brings to its task an inquisitive, fresh, and intelligent perspective. ... Essential reading for historians, literary critics, feminists, and cultural commentators who wish to study mid-nineteenth-century American culture and its relation to contemporary values."--Dianne F. Sadoff, American Quarterly "A compelling and beautifully developed study. ... Halttunen provides us with a subtle book that gently unfolds from her mastery of the subject and intelligent prose."--Paula S. Fass, Journal of Social History "Halttunen has done her homework--the research has been tremendous, the notes and bibliography are impressive, and the text is peppered with hundreds of quotes--and gives some real insight into an area of American culture and history where we might have never bothered to look."--John Hopkins, Times Literary Supplement "The kind of imaginative history that opens up new questions, that challenges conventional historical understanding, and demonstrates how provocative and exciting cultural history can be."--William R. Leach, The New England Quarterly "A stunning contribution to American cultural history."--Alan Trachtenberg
Arithmetic, in which the Principles of Operating by Numbers are Analytically Explained and Synthetically Applied
Author: Daniel AdamsPublisher:
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Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Works of William Shakespeare
Author: William ShakespeareBowing to Necessities
Author: C. Dallett HemphillPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195352246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
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 reinforce--power relations just as these relations underwent challenges. Analyzing the many sermons, child-rearing guides, advice books, and etiquette manuals that taught Americans how to behave, this book connects these instructions to individual practices and personal concerns found in contemporary diaries and letters. It also illuminates crucial connections between evolving class, age, and gender relations. A social and cultural history with a unique and fascinating perspective, Hemphill's wide-ranging study offers readers a panorama of America's social customs from colonial times to the Civil War.
Author: Sir Walter Scott