LEADER 04716nam 22007094 450 001 9910813390403321 005 20140819100830.0 010 $a0-8223-7796-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822377962 035 $a(CKB)3710000000224782 035 $a(OCoLC)891395547 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10916705 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001334897 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11753533 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001334897 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11271505 035 $a(PQKB)11420500 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3008002 035 $a887745716 035 $a(OCoLC)652357964 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse80654 035 $a(DE-B1597)553834 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822377962 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000224782 100 $a20140818d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSentimental materialism $egender, commodity culture, and nineteenth-century American literature /$fLori Merish 210 1$aDurham, NC :$cDuke University Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (401 p.) 225 1 $aNew Americanists 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8223-2516-0 311 $a1-322-10114-0 311 $a0-8223-2480-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [365]-382) and index. 327 $tIntroduction: The Forms of Cultured Feeling --$g1.$tEmbodying Gender: Sentimental Materialism in the New Republic --$g2.$tGender, Domesticity, and Consumption in the 1830s: Caroline Kirkland, Catharine Sedgwick, and the Feminization of American Consumerism --$g3.$tSentimental Consumption: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Aesthetics of Middle-Class Ownership --$g4.$tDomesticating "Blackness": Harret Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, and the Decommodification of the Black Female Body --$g5.$tFashioning a Free Self: Consumption, Politics, and Power in the Writings of Elizabeth Keckley and Frances Harper --$g6.$tNot "Just a Cigar": Commodity Culture and the Construction of Imperial Manhood. 330 $aIn Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Taking as her starting point a diversity of cultural artifacts?from domestic fiction and philosophical treatises to advice literature and cigars?Merish explores the symbolic functions they served and finds that consumption evolved into a form of personal expressiveness that indicated not only a woman?s wealth and taste but also her race, class, morality, and civic values. The discursive production of this new subjectivity?the feminine consumer?was remarkably influential, helping to shape American capitalism, culture, and nation building.The phenomenon of female consumption was capitalism?s complement to male production: It created what Merish calls the ?Other Protestant Ethic,?a feminine and sentimental counterpart to Max Weber?s ethic of hard work, economic rationality, and self-control. In addition, driven by the culture?s effort to civilize the ?cannibalistic? practices of ethnic, class, and national otherness, appropriate female consumerism, marked by taste and refinement, identified certain women and their families as proper citizens of the United States. The public nature of consumption, however, had curiously conflicting effects: While the achievement of cultured material circumstances facilitated women?s civic agency, it also reinforced stereotypes of domestic womanhood.Sentimental Materialism?s inquiry into middle-class consumption and accompanying ideals of womanhood will appeal to readers in a variety of disciplines, including American studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, and cultural history. 410 0$aNew Americanists. 606 $aWomen$zUnited States$xSocial life and customs$y19th century 606 $aWomen consumers$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSex role$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMaterial culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aMaterial culture in literature 615 0$aWomen$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aWomen consumers$xHistory 615 0$aSex role$xHistory 615 0$aMaterial culture$xHistory 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aMaterial culture in literature. 676 $a305.42/0973/09034 700 $aMerish$b Lori$f1962-$01629161 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813390403321 996 $aSentimental materialism$93966706 997 $aUNINA