Cultures of Letters Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America

Name: Cultures of Letters Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America
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ISBN: 9780226075266

ISBN-10: 0226075265

ISBN-13: 9780226075266

Edition: 1993

Authors: Richard H. Brodhead

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Using a variety of historical sources, Richard H. Brodhead reconstructs the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America: the middle-class domestic culture of letters, the culture of mass-produced cheap reading, the militantly hierarchical high culture of post-emancipation black education. He describes how these socially structured worlds of writing shaped the terms of literary practice for writers like Stowe, Hawthorne, Fanny Fern, Louisa May Alcott, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Charles Chesnutt.

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/7/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.85" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.638



Acknowledgments


Introduction


On the Idea of Cultures of Letters



Sparing the Rod


Discipline and Fiction in Antebellum America



Veiled Ladies


Toward a History of Antebellum Entertainment



Starting Out in the 1860s


Alcott, Authorship, and the Postbellum Literary Field



The Reading of Regions For a History of Literary Access


The Reading of Regions


A Study in the Social Life of Forms



Jewett, Regionalism, and Writing as Women's Work



"Why Could Not a Colored Man?"


Chesnutt and the Transaction of Authorship


Notes


Index