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Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America [Hardcover]

Richard H. Brodhead (Author)

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Publication Date: June 15, 1993

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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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (June 15, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226075257
ISBN-13: 978-0226075259
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,329,228 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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CORPORAL PUNISHMENT has been one of the most perennially vexed of questions in American cultural history. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
literary access, disciplinary intimacy, corporal correction, regional fiction, conjure stories, literary regionalism, antebellum decades, literary economy, regional writing, domestic instruction, conjure woman

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Veiled Lady, Wide World, The Wide, Henry James, Annie Fields, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Civil War, Jenny Lind, The Country of the Pointed Firs, Ruth Hall, New England, Dunnet Landing, Fanny Fern, United States, Aunt Fortune, North Carolina, Atlantic Monthly, Little Eva, Gilded Age, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah Orne Jewett, Susan Warner, Ellen Montgomery, Louisa May Alcott, Rena Walden

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