Studies in American Popular History and Culture
The Clubwomen's Daughters: Collectivist Impulses in Progressive-era Girl's Fiction, 1890-1940
1st Edition
By Gwen Tarbox
August 26, 2015
The author provides an interdisciplinary cultural study of the evolution of Progressive-era girls' peer groups, their representation in popular girls' fiction, and the influence of these communities, both real and fictional, upon young women's lives during the years leading up to the Second World ...
Crime and the Nation: Prison and Popular Fiction in Philadelphia. 1786-1800
1st Edition
By Peter Okun
August 21, 2015
Crime and the Nation explores the correlation between fiction writing and national identity in the late eighteenth century when these two enterprises went hand in hand. The 1780s and '90s witnessed a spirited public debate on crime and punishment that produced a new kind of fiction and a new kind ...
Early American Women Dramatists, 1780-1860
1st Edition
By Zoe Desti-Demanti
August 18, 2015
First published in 1999. Although contemporary feminist criticism has mainly focused upon American women playwrights of the twentieth century-women, there is evidence that a feminist tradition rooted deep in the nationalistic and democratic impulses of the American nation existed more than a ...
Piety and Power: Gender and Religious Culture in the American Colonies, 1630-1700
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By Leslie Lindenauer
August 14, 2015
Piety and Power explores gender and religion in the seventeenth century in three American colonies with a dominant religious traditions. The book examines not only the domestic and devotional aspects of women's lives, but also the more public roles that women engaged in as arbiters of community ...
The Factory Girl and the Seamstress: Imagining Gender and Class in Nineteenth Century American Fiction
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By Amal Amireh
August 14, 2015
This book studies the representations of working-class women in canonical and popular American fiction between 1820 and 1870. These representations have been invisible in nineteenth century American literary and cultural studies due to the general view that antebellum writers did not engage with ...
Hollywood's Vision of Team Sports: Heroes, Race, and Gender
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By Deborah V. Tudor
June 25, 2015
This book analyzes the ways in which sport reflects, imitates, and questions cultural values. It examines the representation of team sports, heroes, race, families, and gender in films and other media. Analysis of the ways in which broadcast media and films create such images allows us to map the ...
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State
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By Michael Stancliff
April 27, 2015
A prominent early feminist, abolitionist, and civil rights advocate, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper wrote and spoke across genres and reform platforms during the turbulent second half of the nineteenth century. Her invention of a new commonplace language of moral character drew on the persuasive and ...
Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture
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By Heather Addison
April 27, 2015
This book examines the relationship between cinema and physical culture i.e. activities such as dieting and muscle-building. It presents a case study of Hollywood's impact on the American reducing craze of the 1920s as the basis for speculating interrelationship of Hollywood and physical culture....
Rethinking the Red Scare: The Lusk Committee and New York's Crusade Against Radicalism, 1919-1923
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By Todd J. Pfannestiel
April 27, 2015
Using New York as a lens, this book examines the Red Scare that griped America between 1919-1923 and the pattern it established for future episodes of political repression. It also presents the first in-depth study of the Soviet Bureau, the unofficial Bolshevik embassy that attempted to establish ...
The Lyrics of Civility: Biblical Images & Popular Music Lyrics in American Culture
1st Edition
By Kenneth Bielen
February 09, 2015
This book is the first comprehensive scholarly study of religious images in popular music. Examining bestsellers from 1906 to 1971, the work explores the role religious images have in the secularization of American culture. Popular music lyrics that express an adherence to a sacred order are ...
Women and Comedy in Solo Performance: Phyllis Diller, Lily Tomlin and Roseanne
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By Suzanne Lavin
September 12, 2014
This work examines the dramatic changes in America women's comedy performance in the years 1955-1995.The study focuses on the standup of Phyllis Diller and Roseanne andon the character comedy of Lily Tomlin. As the historical arc of women's comedy unfolds, it outlines a change from the traditional ...
Fictions of Female Education in the Nineteenth Century
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By Jaime Osterman Alves
December 12, 2013
Seeking to understand how literary texts both shaped and reflected the century's debates over adolescent female education, this book examines fictional works and historical documents featuring descriptions of girls' formal educational experiences between the 1810s and the 1890s. Alves argues ...