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The Feminization of American Culture
Langbeschreibung
This modern classic by one of our leading scholars seeks to explain the values prevalent in today's mass culture by tracing them back to their roots in the Victorian era. As religion lost its hold on the public mind, clergymen and educated women, powerless and insignificant in the society of the time, together exerted a profound effect on the only areas open to their influence: the arts and literature. Women wrote books that idealized the very qualities that kept them powerless: timidity, piety, and a disdain for competition. Sentimental values that permeated popular literature continue to influence modern culture, preoccupied as it is with glamour, banal melodrama, and mindless consumption.
Ann Douglas; With a New Preface by the Author
ISBN-13:
9780374525583
Veröffentl:
1998
Erscheinungsdatum:
30.09.1998
Seiten:
420
Autor:
Ann Douglas
Gewicht:
590 g
Format:
216x140x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch