The Saturated World
Author | : Beverly Gordon |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2006 |
ISBN-10 | : 1572335424 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781572335424 |
Rating | : 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
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.