scholarly journals American Culture and the Concept of Mission in Nineteenth Century English Canada

1971 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Smith
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Culture ◽  
English Canada

Making Advice Modern

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Julie Golia
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Conduct Books ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The Way

From early periodicals to conduct books, advice in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries was largely a one-way transmission from advice giver to receiver. It also served conservative ends, reinforcing traditional gender roles to wide audiences, and soothing male anxieties about cultural change. But transformations in media and in American culture at the end of the nineteenth century paved the way for a new and strikingly modern paradigm of advice—one that was interactive, public, flexible in topic and form, and woman-centered. This chapter offers an overview of the rise of the advice column and frames its genesis in the context of the changing newspaper and advertising industries.

Beyond the Iconoclastic Republic

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Brown
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
American Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Monuments ◽  
Compulsory Military Service

This introduction traces antebellum American skepticism about public monuments to the distrust of standing armies that was central to the ideology of the American Revolution. The popularity of Independence Day illustrates the iconoclasm of the early republic, which paralleled a widespread resistance to compulsory military service. Remembrance of the Civil War vastly increased the number of public monuments in the United States. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, these memorials became a vehicle for the militarization of American culture.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Christopher Grasso
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
The Feminine

A through-line in Kelso’s multifaceted life is his commitment to manhood. “Manhood” in nineteenth-century America was about more than the gendered distinctions between the masculine and the feminine. It was what distinguished the human from the beast, and the adult from the child. It had both political and economic characteristics. It demanded that the man take action according to the dictates of conscience. Moreover, there were different dialects of manliness, even among men of the same race, class, ethnicity, and region: competitive or fraternal, passionate or stoic, explosively violent or piously persevering. For Kelso manhood was at once an expectation for all adult males, a quality of character to be developed and expressed, and a prized achievement earned from others. This theme helps us see how aspects of nineteenth-century American culture that might seem worlds apart were in fact experientially connected.

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