A literate South : reading before emancipation /

A pervasive assumption about the culture of the southern United States is that it is firmly rooted in an oral tradition, not a written one. Schweiger complicates our understanding of literacy and reading in the American South before emancipation by shedding light on literature's importance in h...

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Tác giả chính: Schweiger, Beth Barton (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: New Haven : Yale University Press [2019]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvhrcz96
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  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION The Presence of Print; PART I: A Good English Education; CHAPTER ONE Spellers; CHAPTER TWO Grammars; CHAPTER THREE Rhetorics; PART II: A Musical, Literary, and Christian Miscellany; CHAPTER FOUR Songs; CHAPTER FIVE Stories; CHAPTER SIX Doctrines; EPILOGUE A Literate South; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z