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Title:

The Mythmaking frame of mind : social imagination and American culture / [edited by] James Gilbert ... [et al.].

Publisher:

Wadsworth Pub. Co.,

Copyright Date:

c1993

Description:

x, 325 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

United States--Civilization.

Other Authors:

Gilbert, James Burkhart.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction / Joan W. Scott -- Religion, science, and the culture of medical practice in the American South, 1800-1870 / Steven M. Stowe -- Revisiting "A visit from St. Nicholas": the battle for Christmas in early nineteenth-century America / Stephen Nissenbaum -- Edgar Allan Poe detecting the city / Amy Gilman -- Knowledge and the marketplace / Donald M. Scott -- The culture of "Leg-work": the transformation of burlesque after the Civil War / Peter G. Buckley -- Imagining the city / James Gilbert -- "The smile that pays": the culture of traveling salesmen, 1880-1920 / Susan Strasser -- Organization as artifact: a study of technical innovation and management reform, 1893-1906 / Peter Dobkin Hall -- Child-world in the promised land / William Leach -- "The making of a new mind": American women and intellectual life in the 1920s / Joyce Antler -- Immigrant voices from the Federal Writers Project: the Connecticut ethnic survey, 1937-1940 / Laura Anker -- The comedy of love and the Querelle des femmes: Aristocratic satire on marriage / Christopher Lasch.

ISBN:

9780534190385
0534190383

OCLC:

(OCoLC)26215963

LCCN:

92022739

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

UUAX975 -- Briar Cliff University - Mueller Library (Sioux City)