Elsie Clews Parsons
Inventing Modern Life
538 pages
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52 halftones, 6 maps
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6 x 9
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© 1997
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Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations and Maps
Preface
Prologue: Strength to Forget the Past
Part One: Looking Forward
1. The Young Adventuress
2. Travels of the Mind
3. The Experimental Life
Part Two: We Secessionists...
4. The Voyage Out
5. New Science
6. New Woman
7. New Marriage
8. Dear Propagandist
9. The End of the Conversation
Part Three: Trans-National America
10. Saving Herself
11. The Other Continents among Us
12. Disciplinary Politics
13. Jessica at Fifty
14. Other Americas
Part Four: All Serene
15. Elsie’s Lifework—Con Amore
16. A Modernist Death
Epilogue by Catherine R. Stimpson
Notes
Abbreviations
Archival and Oral History Sources
Bibliography of Elsie Clews Parsons, 1896-1962
Index
Preface
Prologue: Strength to Forget the Past
Part One: Looking Forward
1. The Young Adventuress
2. Travels of the Mind
3. The Experimental Life
Part Two: We Secessionists...
4. The Voyage Out
5. New Science
6. New Woman
7. New Marriage
8. Dear Propagandist
9. The End of the Conversation
Part Three: Trans-National America
10. Saving Herself
11. The Other Continents among Us
12. Disciplinary Politics
13. Jessica at Fifty
14. Other Americas
Part Four: All Serene
15. Elsie’s Lifework—Con Amore
16. A Modernist Death
Epilogue by Catherine R. Stimpson
Notes
Abbreviations
Archival and Oral History Sources
Bibliography of Elsie Clews Parsons, 1896-1962
Index
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