Author: Cassell, ltdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Cassell's book of in-door amusements, card games and fireside fun
Author: Cassell, ltdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Adman in the Parlor
Author: Ellen Gruber GarveyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195108221
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Reading the turn-of-the-century magazine, this book resituates the writing of Chopin, Cather, Howells, and numerous unknown writers in relation to commercial as well as literary culture. It investigates readers' responses to the magazines and the reading practices that develop around them.
Refined Tastes
Author: Wendy A. WolosonPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN: 0801877180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
A look at sugar in 19th-century American culture and how it rose in popularity to gain its place in the nation’s diet today. American consumers today regard sugar as a mundane and sometimes even troublesome substance linked to hyperactivity in children and other health concerns. Yet two hundred years ago American consumers treasured sugar as a rare commodity and consumed it only in small amounts. In Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America, Wendy A. Woloson demonstrates how the cultural role of sugar changed from being a precious luxury good to a ubiquitous necessity. Sugar became a social marker that established and reinforced class and gender differences. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Woloson explains, the social elite saw expensive sugar and sweet confections as symbols of their wealth. As refined sugar became more affordable and accessible, new confections—children’s candy, ice cream, and wedding cakes—made their way into American culture, acquiring a broad array of social meanings. Originally signifying male economic prowess, sugar eventually became associated with femininity and women’s consumerism. Woloson’s work offers a vivid account of this social transformation—along with the emergence of consumer culture in America. “Elegantly structured and beautifully written . . . As simply an explanation of how Americans became such avid consumers of sugar, this book is superb and can be recommended highly.” —Ken Albala, Winterthur Portfolio “An enlightening tale about the social identity of sweets, how they contain not just chewy centers but rich meanings about gender, about the natural world, and about consumerism.” —Cindy Ott, Enterprise and Society
Cassell's Book of In-door Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside Fun
Author: VariousPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Cassell's Book of In-Door Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside Fun is a guide to in-door fun events and card games, explained for a younger audience. It is largely occupied with games and sports which are usually carried on out-of-doors, it will be seen that the present book, which is almost exclusively devoted to indoor games of various kinds, forms a very fitting supplement to the other.
The Ladies' Repository
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Episcopal Church
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
The idea of this women's magazine originated with Samuel Williams, a Cincinnati Methodist, who thought that Christian women needed a magazine less worldly than Godey's Lady's Book and Snowden's Lady's Companion. Written largely by ministers, this exceptionally well-printed little magazine contained well-written essays of a moral character, plenty of poetry, articles on historical and scientific matters, and book reviews. Among western writers were Alice Cary, who contributed over a hundred sketches and poems, her sister Phoebe Cary, Otway Curry, Moncure D. Conway, and Joshua R. Giddings; and New England contributors included Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, Hannah F. Gould, and Julia C.R Dorr. By 1851, each issue published a peice of music and two steel plates, usually landscapes or portraits. When Davis E. Clark took over the editorship in 1853, the magazine became brighter and attained a circulation of 40,000. Unlike his predecessors, Clark included fictional pieces and made the Repository a magazine for the whole family. After the war it began to decline and in 1876 was replaced by the National Repository. The Ladies' Repository was an excellent representative of the Methodist mind and heart. Its essays, sketches, and poems, its good steel engravings, and its moral tone gave it a charm all its own. -- Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts
Author: The Foreign Quarterly Review
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: The Every-day Book and Table Book
Author: William HonePractical Essays on Popular Subjects
Author: Mrs. Lewis SnowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description