A fictive people : antebellum economic development and the American reading public /
This text aims to explode two notions that are commonplace in American cultural histories of the 19th century: that the spread of literature was a simple force for the democratization of taste, and that there was a body of 19th-century literature that reflected "a nation of readers."
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1993.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=169009 |
Table of Contents:
- Reading and the ironies of technological innovation
- The publisher's market
- The book peddler and literary dissemination
- The transportation revolution and book distribution
- The railroad, the community, and the book
- Family, church, and academy
- The common school and other institutions
- The letter and the reading public
- Numeracy, the news, and self-culture
- The interior organization of a bookstore
- Gender and boundlessness in reading patterns
- Time, space, and chaos.