At Home in Nineteenth-Century America : : A Documentary History / / Amy G. Richter.

• VerfasserIn: Richter, Amy G.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Few institutions were as central to nineteenth-century American culture as the home. Emerging in the 1820s as a sentimental space apart from the public world of commerce and politics, the Victorian home transcended its initial association with the private lives of the white, native-born bourgeoisie...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: At Home in Nineteenth-Century America
• 1. The Emergence of the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Ideal
• 2. The Persistence of Domestic Labor
• 3. Home, Civilization, and Citizenship
• 4. The American Home on the Move in the Age of Expansion
• 5. At Home in the Late Nineteenth-Century City
• 6. Dismantling the Victorian Ideal and the Future of Domesticity
• Secondary Sources for Further Reading
• Index
• About the Author