ASH 3002y Reading Assignment
April 14, 1999

Jacksonian Architecture

Required reading:

• Catharine Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy, Preface and Chapters 1, 14, 25 (reserve)
• Horatio Greenough, "Remarks on American Art," "American Architecture," from Form and Function (c. 1852) (reserve)

See also some of these web starting points on domestic architecture and design:

• Domestic Ideals:   1840-1870
• Reed College's virtual museum of Nineteenth-century American Art and Architecture
• Professor Jeffrey Howe's Nineteenth-century American Architecture site
• Index of American Design:   Guided tours of drawings in the Index of American Design on the following topics: Costume, Dolls, Folk Arts of the Spanish Southwest, Furniture, Metalwork, Pennsylvania German Folk Art, Pottery, Shaker Crafts, Textiles, Toys, Woodcarving.

Additional reading: 

• For background on Beecher, see Kathryn Kish Sklar, Catharine Beecher:  A Study in American Domesticity (1973; New York:  Norton, 1976).
• Nancy F. Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977).

Leftovers:

• I've just found an interesting site on Whitman's New York, and I thought I'd bring it to your attention.  It's called Worlds Visible and Invisible: Whitman, New York, and the World/Whorled of Print in the 1850s.  Check it out if you're interested.

See what else you can find out there.