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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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James Fenimore Cooper Versus the Cult of Domesticity: Progressive Themes of Femininity and Family in the Novels

James Fenimore Cooper Versus the Cult of Domesticity: Progressive Themes of Femininity and Family in the Novels

Wegener, Signe O.

Paperback

Literary CriticismWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0786421282
ISBN13: 9780786421282
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Apr 5 2005
Pages: 191
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.34 Depth: 8.68
Language: English

Between 1820 and 1860 a set of established cultural values deemed the Cult of Domesticity sought to shape the private and public lives of individuals in a rapidly changing American society. Promoting the ideals of conformity in religious, domestic and personal development, the cult was particularly concerned with maintaining a status quo of piety, purity, obedience and domesticity in 19th century female behavior. While a number a female writers responded through literature to the social standards they were urged to emulate, the prominent male writer James Fenimore Cooper reacted as well, addressing the predominant cultural climate through texts that establish women as an integral part of the plot line.

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