American Cool : Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style.
Cool. The concept has distinctly American qualities and it permeates almost every aspect of contemporary American culture. From Kool cigarettes and the Peanuts cartoon's Joe Cool to West Side Story (Keep cool, boy.) and urban slang (Be cool. Chill out.), the idea of cool, in its many manifestat...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
NYU Press,
1994.
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| Series: | History of Emotions S.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Cool. The concept has distinctly American qualities and it permeates almost every aspect of contemporary American culture. From Kool cigarettes and the Peanuts cartoon's Joe Cool to West Side Story (Keep cool, boy.) and urban slang (Be cool. Chill out.), the idea of cool, in its many manifestations, has seized a central place in our vocabulary. Where did this preoccupation with cool come from? How was Victorian culture, seemingly so ensconced, replaced with the current emotional status quo? From whence came American Cool?. These are the questions Peter Stearns seeks to answer in this timely an. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780814771037 0814771033 |