Publication

2006 - University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tennessee

Language

English

Word Count

68,250 words, Guess

Page Count

273 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • Goodreads1489309

Classifications

  • LCCHQ1419 .G67 2006

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.

Subjects

Topics

WomenHistoryHandicraftAmusementsRecreationWomen, united statesSocial life and customs

Places

Other Editions

  • The saturated worldUniversity of Tennessee Press2006

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