The Saturated World

The Saturated World
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Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 1572335424
ISBN-13 : 9781572335424
Rating : 4/5 (424 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Saturated World by : Beverly Gordon

Download or read book The Saturated World written by Beverly Gordon and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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