Books written by John F. Kasson
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Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America
John Addington Symonds r« Edmund Gosse, Dec, 25, 1899, in The Letters of John Addington Symotic/s, ed. I lerbert M. Schueller and Robert L. Peters (Detroit: VVaync State University Press, 1969), 3:1779; Anthony Corn- stock.
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The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America
When Alexander Hall needed Shirley to cry in a scene for Little Miss Marker, he told her, “I want you to think that you'll never see your mother again. Think hard, she's gone, gone for good. She'll never, never, never come back.
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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century
Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. "Amusing the Million" examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its ...
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Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America
Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville, New Travels in the United States of America, 1788 (first published in 1791), trans. Mara Soceanu Vamos and Durand Echeverria; ed. Durand Echeverria (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, Belknap Press, ...
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The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America
Little Marthy, an unredeemed IOU, becomes Little Marky, punning on the word “marker.” A sweet little girl left to the custody of hardened men is a situation rich in comic possibilities. Sorrowful quickly wins his money back by joining a ...
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Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776-1900
This work shows us how new technologies affected this drive for a republican civilization - a question as vital now as ever.
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Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America
A remarkable new work from one of our premier historians In his exciting new book, John F. Kasson examines the signs of crisis in American life a century ago, signs that new forces of modernity were affecting men's sense of who and what ...
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Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America
... i8$o-i^oo (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press and Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum, 1987), 154-55. 6. Susan Williams, Savory Suppers and Fashionable Feasts: Dining in Victorian America (New York: Pantheon Books, ...
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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century
Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation ...
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Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America
"Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man" considers the surprisingly complex evolution in representations of the white male body in late-nineteenth-century America, during years of rapid social transformation.
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Rudeness & Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-century Urban America
With keen insight and subtle humor, John F. Kasson explores the history and politics of etiquette from America's colonial times through the nineteenth century.