the material culture of remembrance in eighteenth-century America
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Stabile, Susan M.
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B5799 - B
- Thesaurus
- saloncultuur, schrijvers, dichters, dagelijks leven, vroegmoderne periode, Verenigde Staten, 18e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- A literary coterie in eighteenth-century Philadelphia - Elizabeth Fergusson, Hannah Griffitts, Deborah Logan, Annis Stockton, and Susanna Wright - wrote and exchanged poems and maintained handwritten books of memorabilia, and initiated a salon culture. The author shows that these female writers sought to memorialize their lives and aesthetic experience. She discusses how the group used their writings to explore and at times replicate the arrangement of their material possessions. The author focuses on vernacular architecture, penmanship, souvenir collecting, and mourning.