In this study of American 19th-century secret orders, the author argues that religious practices and gender roles became increasingly feminized in Victorian Ame

This book documents the potency of Manifest destiny in the antebellum era.

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Katherine Snyder's study explores the significance of the bachelor narrator, a prevalent but little-recognised figure in premodernist and modernist fiction by m

The stereotype of the Victorian man as a flinty, sexually repressed patriarch belies the remarkably wide variety of male behaviors and conceptions of manhood du