Amy G Richter: 2 books

Book cover of Home on the Rails

Home on the Rails

Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity

by Amy G. Richter
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006

Recognizing the railroad's importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there. For a time, Richter argues, nineteenth-century Americans imagined the public realm as a chaotic...
Book cover of At Home in Nineteenth-Century America
by Amy G. Richter
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015

Few institutions were as central to nineteenth-century American culture as the home. Emerging in the 1820s as a sentimental space apart from the public world of commerce and politics, the Victorian home transcended its initial association with the private lives of the white, native-born bourgeoisie...
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