Domesticating history

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Focusing on George Washington's Mount Vernon, Louisa May
Alcott's Orchard House, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and the Booker T.
Washington National Monument, Patricia West shows how historic houses reflect
less the lives and times of their famous inhabitants than the political
pressures of the eras during which they were transformed into museums. In the
late 1850s the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association evoked a mythologized George
Washington to campaign for the "rescue" of his home, glossing over his role as
a slaveholder to appeal to patrons on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. In
1912 the establishment of Orchard House as a museum in homage to the domestic
harmony portrayed in Alcott's novel "Little Women" unified the Woman's Club of
Concord, Massachusetts, which was bitterly divided over Women's suffrage. In
the 1920s and 1930s Monticello became a touchstone for professional house
restoration and an idealized Thomas Jefferson a focal point for a rift-weary
Democratic Party. During the 1950s the birthplace of Booker T. Washington
became a monument created largely by politicians besieged by conflicts over
civil rights.

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Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 mei 1999

Aantal pagina's: 241

Hoofdauteur: Patricia West

Hoofduitgeverij: Smithsonian Institution Press

EAN: 9781560988113

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