By Amy G. Richter
ISBN-10: 0807829269
ISBN-13: 9780807829264
Spotting the railroad's significance as either image and event in Victorian the United States, Amy G. Richter follows ladies tourists onto trains and considers the results in their presence there. For a time, Richter argues, nineteenth-century american citizens imagined the general public realm as a chaotic and unsafe yet probably wealthy house the place a variety of teams got here jointly, collided, and stimulated each other, for higher or worse. the instance of the yankee railroad finds how, by way of the start of the 20 th century, this snapshot used to be changed through one in every of a domesticated public realm-a public area during which either men and women more and more strove to make themselves "at home." via efforts that ranged from the homey touches of railroad motor vehicle d??cor to advertisements pictures celebrating woman tourists and criminal circumstances sanctioning gender-segregated areas, tourists and railroad businesses remodeled the railroad from a spot of chance and nearly limitless social blending into one within which white women and men alleviated the strain of disagreeable social touch. Making themselves "at domestic" aboard the trains, white women and men domesticated the railroad for themselves and lead the way for a racially segregated and class-stratified public area that freed ladies from the house but nonetheless preserved the railroad as a masculine area.
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When abroad, one was to be both well groomed and well mannered. The preparation for such public display took place in the private spaces of the home. But passengers’ private moments played themselves out in public. From one’s seat in the back of a railway car, one could view, unobserved, the private dramas of strangers: ‘‘The young man who kissed his hand from the back platform, and the girl he left behind waving her ‘kerchief in response. . ’’ 77 Such scenes suggest that while the nineteenth-century cult of domesticity celebrated the domestic sphere as a safe and well-ordered sanctuary from the competitive and uncertain public life of industrializing America, the seemingly separate spheres of private and public life continued to collide in the cars.
23 Ironically, Howells’s novel heightened the visibility of honeymooners on the trains. According to a travel writer in , ‘‘the bridal couple, with showers of rice coming from every source, are ever present [aboard the trains], and objects of marked interest since the advent of Mr. ’ ’’ 24 Both ‘‘Santa Claus’ New Team’’ and Their Wedding Journey depict a world of expanded demands and increasingly complex social negotiations: How can Santa possibly deliver toys to so many children? How can Isabel March withstand the gaze of so many strangers and still enjoy her honeymoon?
Such stories suggested that at any moment aboard the train public life could collide with private needs. By assailing the foundational cultural boundary between private and public life so openly, the cars presented travelers with an unfamiliar social environment. The separation of private and public into distinct spheres shaped Victorian notions of proper conduct and deemed the activities and postures of private life inappropriate for public display. When abroad, one was to be both well groomed and well mannered.
Home on the Rails: Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity (Gender and American Culture) by Amy G. Richter
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