Confidence Men and Painted Women: The Making of the American Middle Class

Időpont: 12:30-12:50

Terem: 107. terem

Előadó: Dr. Vajda Zoltán

Ezeket a szakokat/specializációkat ismerheted meg itt jobban: anglisztika BA; amerikanisztika specializáció

This is a class in US history designed to introduce students to the cultural changes that took place in the first half of the nineteenth century generating new cultural norms for the rising urban middle classes. Topics to be discussed: economic and social changes in the American Republic, rising fear of strangers in cities, sincerety and hypocrisy as ways of human conduct, sentimentalism and fashion, parlor games.