Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America, 1830-1870
- ISBN-10
- 0300028350
- ISBN-13
- 9780300028355
- Category
- Hypocrisy
- Pages
- 262
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press
- Author
- Karen Halttunen
Description
Karen Halttunen draws a vivid picture of the social and cultural development of the upwardly mobile middle class, basing her study on a survey of the conduct manuals and fashion magazines of mid-nineteenth-century America.
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