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The Two Richard Sennetts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

T. J. Jackson Lears
T. J. Jackson Lears
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T. J. Jackson Lears is Associate Professor of Histroy at the University of Missouri–Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211.
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , April 1985 , pp. 81 - 94
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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References

1 Sennett, Richard, Families Against the City (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970), p. 119CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Ibid., p. 189.

3 Cott, Nancy F., The Bonds of Womanhood: Woman's “Sphere” in New England, 1780–1835 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977)Google Scholar; Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll, “The Female World of Love and Ritual,” Signs, 1 (1975), 1–24CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Mintz, Steven, A Prison of Expectations: The Family in Victorian Culture (New York: NYU Press, 1982)Google Scholar; Stowe, Steven, The Relations of Life: Family, Ritual, and Culture in the Antebellum Planter Class (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, forthcoming)Google Scholar.

4 These points were cogently made by Duis, Perry, who reviewed Families in the American Journal of Sociology 76, (03 1971), 956CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and by Haller, Mark, “Family Fictions,” Reviews in American History 1 (03 1973), 113–19CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Sennett acknowledged his polemical intent in his “Comment” on an earlier version of this essay at the session “Sociological Perspectives on American Studies: the Work of Richard Sennett,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, 1983. I am grateful for his receptiveness to criticsm.

5 Sennett, Families, p. 105.

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7 Ibid., pp. 82–83 ff.

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10 Ibid., part two.

11 Ibid., esp. chap. 7, 8. Quotation, p. 39.

12 Ibid, quotation, p. 191.

13 Ibid., p. 255.

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19 Ibid., pp. 94 ff.

20 Ibid., pp. 96–97. I have discussed Gramsci's notion of divided consciousness – and its limitations – in “The Concept of Cultural Hegemony: Problems and Possibilities,” a paper presented at the O.A.H Annual Meeting, 1984.

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26 Ibid., p. 118.

27 Sennett's novels are The Frog Who Dared to Croak (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982)Google Scholar and An Evening of Brahms (New York: Knopf, 1984)Google Scholar. Haller, “Family Fictions” explicitly dismisses Families as fiction in the narrow sense. The phrase “regulative fictions” is Frank Kermode's; it is quoted without citation by Gordon S. Wood, “Star-Spangled History,” review of Middlekauff, Robert, The Glorious Cause: the American Revolution, 1763–1789, New York Review of Books 29 (12 08 1982), p. 9Google Scholar.