كتاب
Memory's daughters: the material culture of remembrance in eighteenth-century America
العنوان: | Memory's daughters: the material culture of remembrance in eighteenth-century America |
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المؤلفون: | Stabile, Susan M., 1966- |
بيانات النشر: | Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004. 1st ed. |
سنة النشر: | 2004 |
وصف مادي: | xiii, 284 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Commonplace-books., Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Intellectual life -- 18th century., Women poets, American -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography., American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism., Memory -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century., Material culture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century., Architecture, Domestic -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century., Souvenirs (Keepsakes) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century., Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 18th century., Biography., Criticism, interpretation, etc., History. |
جغرافية الموضوع: | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Intellectual life -- 18th century., Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Biography. |
الوصف: | "A renowned literary coterie in eighteenth-century Philadelphia - Elizabeth Fergusson, Hannah Griffitts, Deborah Logan, Annis Stockton, and Susanna Wright - wrote and exchanged thousands of poems and maintained elaborate handwritten commonplace books of memorabilia. Through their creativity and celebrated hospitality, they initiated a salon culture in their great country houses in the Delaware Valley. In this original and heavily illustrated book, Susan M. Stabile shows that these female writers sought to memorialize their lives and aesthetic experience - a purpose that stands in marked contrast to the civic concerns of male authors in the republican era." "Drawing equally on material culture and literary history, Stabile discusses how the group used their writings to explore and at times replicate the arrangement of their material possessions, including desks, writing paraphernalia, mirrors, miniatures, beds, and coffins. As she reconstructs the poetics of memory that informed the women's lives and structured their manuscripts, Stabile focuses on vernacular architecture, penmanship, souvenir collecting, and mourning." "Empirically rich and nuanced in its readings of different kinds of artifacts, this work tells of the erasure of the women's lives from the national memory as the feminine aesthetic of scribal publication was overshadowed by the proliferating print culture of late eighteenth-century America."--Jacket. |
ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Memory -- The architecture of memory -- Pen, ink, and memory -- Collective reminiscence -- Among her souvenirs -- In memoriam. |
Original Identifier: | ocm53170321 |
نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
اللغة: | English |
ردمك: | 978-0-8014-4031-1 0-8014-4031-9 |
حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-276) and index. |
رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.009333700.0 |
قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
ردمك: | 9780801440311 0801440319 |
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