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CULTURES OF LETTERS
SCENES OF READING AND WRITING IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA |
By: |
Richard H. Brodhead |
Format: |
Paperback |

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ISBN 10: |
0226075265 |
ISBN 13: |
9780226075266 |
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 November, 1994 |
Pages: |
256 |
Description: |
Using a variety of historical sources, Brodhead reconstructs the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America: the domestic culture of letters; mass-produced cheap reading; the culture of post-emancipation black education. He describes how these socially structured worlds shaped literary practice for writers. |
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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. |
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5 halftones |
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US |
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University of Chicago Press |
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