The Saturated World: Aesthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, Women's Lives, 1890-1940

The Saturated World: Aesthetic Meaning, Intimate Objects, Women's Lives, 1890-1940
ISBN-10
1572335424
ISBN-13
9781572335424
Category
History
Pages
273
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Univ. of Tennessee Press
Author
Beverly Gordon

Description

Explores the way middle-class American women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries added meaning to their lives through their "domestic amusements"--leisure pursuits that took place in and were largely focused on the home. Women elaborated on their everyday tasks and responsibilities with these amusements thus cultivating a heightened, aesthetically charged "saturated" state and created self-contained enchanted worlds.

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