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

Időpont: 12:00–12:20

Terem: X. terem (földszint, főbejárattól balra)

Előadó: Dr. Vajda Zoltán


Ezeket a szakokat/specializációkat ismerheted meg itt jobban: anglisztika, amerikanisztika


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.