Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America, 1830-1870 by Karen Halttunen

Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America, 1830-1870

Karen Halttunen

288 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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.“An ingenious book: origi...

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