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Title: The Feminization of American Culture by Ann Douglas ISBN: 0-374-52558-7 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: masterly
Comment: One can only imagine the work that has gone into this staggering piece of intellectual history - whose axis is the unforeseeable and fateful rise of the female public in American intellectual life, and contemporaneously the collapse of the old, muscular style of Protestant religiosity and intellect - from the kind and number of sources the author uses. She has apparently trawled through reams and piles of obscure newspapers and magazines, familiarized herself with writing most of us would be glad to avoid, learned to distinguish the various strands of an intellectual and publishing life which is, to modern America, as alien as imperial China or early Sumer. The result is tremendous: not only a resurrection of a past age that does it honour and justice (if anything, one seems to perceive, in this female scholar, a certain sympathy - even nostalgia - for the utra-male, activist, iron-faced world of the old Puritan thinkers, post-Jonathan Edwards and his likes), but a flood of light on the origins of our (not exclusively American) world and society. This simply cannot be praised too much; future historians will not be able to prescind from it.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not a feminist polemic, nor "cultural criticism"
Comment: This is foremost a history, and has a focus rather more restricted than its title would suggest, surveying the careers and lives of thirty women and thirty (male) ministers involved in the "feminization" of northeastern Victorian America. The author convinced me in arguing for the significance of said feminization, but I felt burdened by all the biographical minutiae. One has to ignore reams of trivia to grasp the larger themes hinted at in the titles of the chapters (e.g., "The Escape From History," "The Domestication of Death). Where the author breaks the tedium with an impassioned commentary, she seems to be writing a different book altogether. But Douglas's treatment of the theme is original and even-handed, and her short biography of Margaret Fuller compensates for the tiresome church histories.
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Title: Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860 by Jane Tompkins ISBN: 0195041194 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 1986 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Woman's Fiction: A Guide to Novels by and About Women in America, 1820-70 by Nina Baym ISBN: 025206285X Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref) Pub. Date: February, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg ISBN: 0195040392 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: May, 1986 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: The Lamplighter (American Women Writers) by Maria S. Cummins, Nina Baym ISBN: 0813513332 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America by Cathy N. Davidson ISBN: 0195056531 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: September, 1988 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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