Description
Book SynopsisSusan J. Matt is Presidential Distinguished Professor of History at Weber State University, USA. She is author of
Keeping Up with the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890-1930 and H
omesickness: An American History, and co-author with Luke Fernandez of
Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about Technology from the Telegraph to Twitter. Her writing has appeared in the
New York Times, the
Wall Street Journal, and the
Journal of American History.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Editors' Preface Introduction,
Susan J. Matt (Weber State University, USA) 1. Medical and Scientific Understandings,
Rob Boddice (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany and McGill University, Canada) 2. Religion and Spirituality,
Julius H. Rubin (University of Saint Joseph, USA) 3. Music and Dance,
Wiebke Thormählen (Royal College of Music in London, UK) 4. Drama,
Aileen Forbes (Columbia University, USA) 5. The Visual Arts,
Kerstin Thomas (Stuttgart University, Germany) 6. Literature,
Gregory Eiselein (Kansas State University, USA) 7. In Private: The Individual and the Domestic Community,
Peter N. Stearns (George Mason University, USA) 8. In Public: Collectivities and Polities,
Ute Frevert (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany) Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
