Pic-Nic
| Author(s) | Hern, Mary Ellen Wisniewski | |
| Date Accessioned | 2020-05-15T13:19:25Z | |
| Date Available | 2020-05-15T13:19:25Z | |
| Publication Date | 1987 | |
| Abstract | This study examines the picnic from 1840 to 1900 as it was celebrated in the American Northeast: as a gathering of family or friends who travel to a scenic spot for luncheon and revels. The evidence ranges over the fields of material culture, including paintings, photographs, etiquette manuals, cookbooks, period fiction and artifacts from market baskets through multi-acre groves. The image of the picnic is explored through visuals and accounts, and an ethnographic reconstruction is done through prescriptive literature, fiction and artifacts. ☐ The picnic's primary function in society was the escape from etiquette in the childlike playing of games, overeating and flirtatious behavior. Picnickers are allowed a great latitude of acceptable behaviors and activities, and this nexus of freedom and propriety makes the picnic a focal symbol of Victorian culture. The popularity and need for the picnic is demonstrated by its acceptance and transmission through American culture. (Abstract from ProQuest citation page.) | en_US |
| Advisor | Herman, Bernard L. | |
| Degree | M.A. | |
| Program | University of Delaware, Winterthur Program in Early American Culture | |
| Unique Identifier | 1154355153 | |
| URL | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/27135 | |
| Publisher | University of Delaware | en_US |
| URI | https://search.proquest.com/docview/303546004?accountid=10457 | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Picnics -- Social aspects | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century | |
| Title | Pic-Nic | en_US |
| Title | Picnic | en_US |
| Type | Thesis | en_US |