Disciplines of virtue : girls' culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Lynne Vallone.
Disciplines of virtue : girls' culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Lynne Vallone.
Disciplines of virtue : girls' culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Lynne Vallone.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, c1995.
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N305.2350973/4
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English
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x, 230 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The Pleasure of the Act: Charity, Penitence, and Narrative -- 2. "The Matter of Letters": Conduct, Anatomy and Pamela -- 3. The Value of Virtue: Dowry, Marriage Settlements, and the Conduct Novel -- 4. The Happiness of Virtue: Evangelicalism, Class, and Gender -- 5. The Daughters of the Republic:...
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New Haven : Yale University Press, c1995.
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Connecticut
Date Published
c1995.
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Employing the methods of feminist theory and cultural studies, Lynne Vallone examines the historical and social production of girls' culture in Britain and America - from eighteenth-century English asylums for penitent prostitutes and rescue homes in late nineteenth-century America to such social and legal practices as marriage settlements in which...
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Disciplines of virtue : girls' culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Lynne Vallone.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-226) and index.
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c1995.
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N305.2350973/4
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74VMBV84bO8Z
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0300061722 (acid-free paper)
9780300061727 (acid-free paper)
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305.2350973
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991002386089702626
