A Companion to American Cultural History
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Halttunen, Karen
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Article
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2008
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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When I fi rst thought about studying US cultural history, the antebellum period seemed a rather unlikely place to set up shop. In the broader sweep of American culture, these were the decades known as early or mid-"Victorian," a period typically defi ned by its rigid social strictures and cast as do