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Confidence men and painted women : a study of middle-class culture in America, 1830-1870  Cover Image E-book E-book

Confidence men and painted women : a study of middle-class culture in America, 1830-1870

Summary: Karen Halttunen draws a vivid picture of the social and cultural development of the upwardly mobile middle class, basing her study on a survey of the conduct manuals and fashion magazines of mid-nineteenth-century America.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780300037883
  • ISBN: 9780300028355
  • ISBN: 0300037880
  • ISBN: 0300028350
  • ISBN: 9780300166644
  • ISBN: 0300166648
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 262 pages) : illustrations
    remote
    Computer data.
  • Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [1982]

Content descriptions

General Note:
CatMonthString:june.23
Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 1. The Era of the Confidence Man -- 2. Hypocrisy and Sincerity in the World of Strangers -- 3. Sentimental Culture and the Problem of Fashion -- 4. Sentimental Culture and the Problem of Etiquette -- 5. Mourning the Dead: A Study in Sentimental Ritual -- 6. Disguises, Masks and the Parlor Theatricals: The Decline of Sentimental Culture in the 1850s -- Conclusion.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:
Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: United States -- Moral conditions
Social values
Sincerity
Middle class -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Hypocrisy
Geschichte -- 1830-1870
Multi-User.
JSTOR-DDA
United States
�Etats-Unis -- Conditions morales
United States
United States -- Moral conditions
Sociale moraal
Middenklassen
Social values
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
Social history
social history
Sincerity
Moral conditions
Middle class
Hypocrisy
Valeurs sociales
Sinc�erit�e
Hypocrisie
Histoire sociale
Classes moyennes -- �Etats-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e si�ecle
Bourgeoisie -- �Etats-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e si�ecle
Social Values
Social Control, Informal -- history
Social Conditions
Social Class
Social values
Social history
Sincerity
Middle class -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Hypocrisy
Genre: History.

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