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Download or Read eBook In the New England Fashion PDF written by Catherine E. Kelly and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
In the New England Fashion
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 277
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ISBN-10 : 9781501731495
ISBN-13 : 1501731491
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Book Synopsis In the New England Fashion by : Catherine E. Kelly

Book excerpt: 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.


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