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Person. I put up here the cover of one of Theodore Dreisers novels, sister carrie, and what we have been considering is a kind of fictional assault, right . On the victorian moral order. In Theodore Dreisers case, in naturalistic fiction. Naturalist writing. The attempt to get close to urban reality and recorded in the form record it in the form of a email adventurer female adventurer. He set his story, as you know, in the booming, bustling town of chicago. And to use chicago as a kind of charac...

Pieces. So it works both ways. Lets move on to Christine Fredericks. I want to make sure we talk about the new housekeeping. Ks. Christine frederick herself was it on not the first to hit on this idea of a household engineer. The whole professioncime economics is becoming more expert driven in this period. T thish is in the early 20th 0th ce century Home Economics class. Home economics will be7v . Z taught in schools as a subject. Did any of you take home ec . It the roodsts are in this period. ...

Independent but its not just for peop for people in dearborn. Deer whats his great advantage . Bo how can he distribute this paper . . Pa what does he have . Yeah. He has cars. He has cars. And if you want to sell cars, sell you need then and now need advertising. Tising. Dealerships. Dealerships. Youve got Car Dealerships. And they are beholden to you because they dont do what you ey dont say, you wont let them have any you cars and they wont be able to ha sell them, wont be able to make any mo...

Lonization of an area thought to be something individual private households do that were passed on in a rule of thumb way from mothers to daughters. Think of the beacher sisters who were part of this in a way, too, talking about household management. Home economics as a field of profession a professional domain where there are experts creating curriculum is a turn of the century kind of invention. Here again is that is not Christine Frederick but that is someone who looks like Christine Frederic...

Famously formed rabbi rabbi franklin, leo franklin. In the middle of the whole series of antisemitic articles, what do you think franklin did when he got a free card from henry ford . Returned it. You know. You must have the wrong person here. Youre just accusing jews of all sorts of things, how can you offer mo a gift . Henry ford was deeply surprised. Im talking about the jews, im not talking about you. And even though this is humorous to us it does remind us of an important theme in the schol...

And distribute the deerborn independent. So it is going to be a much more important newspaper than you know had he just remained a very local newspaper in deerborn, and he buys the paper and sets it up, gets going in 1919. Its called the deerborn independent but honestly it wasnt independent at all. Its a free country call it whatever you like, independent but it was actually totally dependent on the Ford Motor Company. And not surprisingly if you were to read a run of the paper, its views and t...

Century but take on an expertdriven advice. The new housekeeping efficiency study in home management. Household engineer and professional consultant. One question we might pose here, i think its clear how much frederick is indebted to spun like taylor. Right . But how much has changed in the envisioning of the household from the time of the beacher sisters in the 1860s to this moment . Whats changed and whats remained the same . Nothing is every totally a break with the past, we might say. What ...

Century. And especially lay consumer culture. We talked about the motor behind the story, and i think we settled on one word. Desire. Desire was the kind of engine with the story. Wanting what you cant have. Always being able to see what is ahead of you that is elusive that youre trying to grasp. And thats what makes things happen in the novel. Remember that carrie is never satisfied. And recall the department store, right . Where he felt as he tells us the claim of each trinket and valuable upo...