The Power of culture
Subtitle: critical essays in American history
By: edited by Richard Wightman Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears.
Contributors: Fox, Richard Wightman, 1945-; Lears, T. J. Jackson, 1947-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: United States -- Civilization -- 20th century
Description: More and more scholars are turning to cultural history in order to make sense of the American past. This volume brings together nine original essays by some leading practitioners in the field. The essays aim to exhibit the promise of a cultural approach to understanding the range of American experiences from the seventeenth century to the present. Expanding on the editors' pathbreaking The Culture of Consumption, the contributors to this volume argue for a cultural history that attends closely to language and textuality without losing sight of broad configurations of power that social and political history at its best has always stressed. The authors here freshly examine crucial topics in both private and public life. Taken together, the essays shed new light on the power of culture in the lives of Americans past and present. --Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Sherwood Anderson / Jackson Lears; title: Unlimn'd they disappear / Christopher P. Wilson; title: Early American murder narratives / Karen Halttunen; title: Intimacy on trial / Richard Wightman Fox; title: The class experience of mass consumption / Lizabeth Cohen; title: Between culture and consumption / Joan Shelley Rubin; title: Fighting for the American family / Robert Westbrook; title: Making time / Michael L. Smith; title: An atmosphere of effrontery / Casey Nelson Blake.