Description: Further DetailsTitle: In the New England FashionCondition: NewSubtitle: Reshaping Women's Lives in the Nineteenth CenturyISBN-10: 0801487862EAN: 9780801487866ISBN: 9780801487866Publisher: Cornell University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/01/2002Description: In the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical transformation as the traditional household economy gave way to an encroaching market culture. Drawing on a wide array of diaries, letters, and published writings by women in this society, Catherine E. Kelly describes their attempts to make sense of the changes in their world by elaborating values connected to rural life. In her hands, the narratives reveal the dramatic ways female lives were reshaped during the antebellum period and the women's own contribution to those developments. Equally important, she demonstrates how these writings afford a fuller understanding of the capitalist transformation of the countryside and the origins of the Northern middle class.Provincial women exalted rural life for its republican simplicity while condemning that of the city for its aristocratic pretension. The idyllic nature of the former was ascribed to the financial independence that the household economy had long provided those in the farming community. Kelly examines how the juxtaposition of rural virtue to urban vice served as a cautionary defense against the new realities of the capitalist market society. She finds that women responded to the transition to capitalism by upholding a set of values which point toward the creation of a provincial bourgeoisie.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 155mmItem Width: 15mmAuthor: Catherine E. KellyGenre: HistoryTopic: Society & Culture, Gender Sex & RelationshipsItem Weight: 454gRelease Year: 2002 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: In the New England Fashion
Title: In the New England Fashion
Subtitle: Reshaping Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN-10: 0801487862
EAN: 9780801487866
ISBN: 9780801487866
Release Date: 04/01/2002
Release Year: 2002
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: In the New England Fashion : Reshaping Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Century
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: Women, United States / 19th Century, United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT)
Publication Year: 2002
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: History
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Author: Catherine E. Kelly
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
