Author: S. M. Vernon
Publisher:
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Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Amusements in the Light of Reason, History, and Revelation
Author: S. M. Vernon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Catalogue of Additions to the Library of the U.S. Patent Office, May 1, 1878-May 1, 1883
Author: United States. Patent Office
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Catalogue of Additions to the Library of the United States Patent Office
Author: United States. Patent Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Mothers' Journal
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Laboring to Play
Author: Melanie Dawson
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817357645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A compelling analysis of how "middling" Americans entertained themselves and how these entertainments changed over time. The changing styles of middle-class home entertainments, Melanie Dawson argues, point to evolving ideas of class identity in U.S. culture. Drawing from 19th- and early-20th-century fiction, guidebooks on leisure, newspaper columns, and a polemical examination of class structures, Laboring to Play interrogates the ways that leisure performances (such as parlor games, charades, home dramas, and tableaux vivants) encouraged participants to test out the boundaries that were beginning to define middle-class lifestyles. From 19th-century parlor games involving grotesque physical contortions to early-20th-century recitations of an idealized past, leisure employments mediated between domestic and public spheres, individuals and class-based affiliations, and ideals of egalitarian social life and visible hierarchies based on privilege. Negotiating these paradigms, home entertainments provided their participants with unique ways of performing displays of individual ambitions within a world of polite social interaction. Laboring to Play deals with subjects as wide ranging as social performances, social history (etiquette and gentility), literary history, representations of childhood, and the history of the book.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817357645
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A compelling analysis of how "middling" Americans entertained themselves and how these entertainments changed over time. The changing styles of middle-class home entertainments, Melanie Dawson argues, point to evolving ideas of class identity in U.S. culture. Drawing from 19th- and early-20th-century fiction, guidebooks on leisure, newspaper columns, and a polemical examination of class structures, Laboring to Play interrogates the ways that leisure performances (such as parlor games, charades, home dramas, and tableaux vivants) encouraged participants to test out the boundaries that were beginning to define middle-class lifestyles. From 19th-century parlor games involving grotesque physical contortions to early-20th-century recitations of an idealized past, leisure employments mediated between domestic and public spheres, individuals and class-based affiliations, and ideals of egalitarian social life and visible hierarchies based on privilege. Negotiating these paradigms, home entertainments provided their participants with unique ways of performing displays of individual ambitions within a world of polite social interaction. Laboring to Play deals with subjects as wide ranging as social performances, social history (etiquette and gentility), literary history, representations of childhood, and the history of the book.
The Mothers' Journal and Family Visitant
Author: Eliza Crosby Allen
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
The Annual American Catalogue
Author: L. Pylodet
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Catalogue of Additions to the Library of the United States Patent Office
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385301327
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385301327
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The Annual American Catalogue
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Religious Magazine and Monthly Review
Author:
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Category : Unitarianism
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Unitarianism
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description