Conduct Books in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Conduct Books in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Women's Education
  • Beecher's Homemakers
  • ‘She Could Make a Cake as Well as Books …’: Catharine Sedgwick, Anna Jameson, and the Construction of the Domestic Intellectual
  • ‘That Which before Us Lies in Daily Life’: Social Discourse
  • Nineteenth-Century United States Conduct Book Rhetoric by Women
• Criticism: Feminist Revisions
  • Harriet Martineau's Household Education: Revising the Feminine Tradition
  • ‘A Crisis in Woman's History’: Frances Power Cobbe's Duties of Women and the Practice of Everyday Feminism
• Criticism: American Behavioral Literature: Cultivating National Identity
  • Republican Etiquette
  • The Building of a Glorious Temple, 1843
  • Sentimental Culture and the Problem of Etiquette
• Criticism: English Behavioral Literature: Defining A Middle Class
  • Do's and Don'ts for the Mistress of the House
  • Material Angels: Wings of Clay
• Further Reading