The World of the Eighteenth Century (for English Majors): Daily Life
English majors, and all others, are welcome to use this guide to understand the cultural & historical context in which the literature being read was created.
Morning Chocolate, by Pietro Longhi (1702-85). Image from Art Museum Image Gallery.
Daily Life in the 18th Century
Daily Life in 18th Century England, 2nd edition
Call Number: Ref. DA485 .O47 2017
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America
Call Number: Ref. E169.1 .G7553 2009
4 volumes. See volume 1.
Advances and Innovations in American Daily Life, 1600-1930s
Call Number: Ref. E161 .G76 2002
What American Women Did, 1789-1920
Call Number: Ref. HQ1154 .C665 2001
Year-by-year chronicle of women's live in the United States.
Sports and Games of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Call Number: Ref. GV576 .C74 2003
Sports in America: From Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century
Call Number: Ref. GV583 .S68588 2011
3 volumes. First volume has overview of American sports by century. You then would need to look at articles on individual sports for more historical detail.
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, and Sexuality Through History
Call Number: Ref. HQ21 .G67125 2008
6 volumes. See Vols. 3 and 4.
Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body
Call Number: Ref. HM636 .C85 2008
2 volumes. This is one of those odd/weird/delightful works full of articles you can't really imagine someone being a scholar of. Includes a body "chronology" and history of body culture over the centuries.
