"A rich resource for readers interested in the study of American culture."--'South Atlantic Review. '"The essays are noteworthy in their own right, and the collection overall is unified and coherent...'Reading in America' shows a field in its early stages that is attracting a group of extremely talented scholars."--'Journal of American History.
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This engaging collection of essays, offering in their various ways a history of books and reading in the United States from colonial times to the present, will appeal to all students of American A rich resource for readers interested in the study of American culture.
(South Atlantic Review. )The essays are noteworthy in their own right, and the collection overall is unified and coherent... Reading in America shows a field in its early stages that is attracting a group of extremely talented scholars.
(Journal of American History )A rich resource for readers interested in the study of American culture
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Histoire du livre in France, Geschichte des Buchwesens in Germany, "history of book" or "of the book" in English-speaking countries-its name varies from place to place, but everywhere it is being recognized as an important new discipline. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
artisan subscribers, black book publishers, high culture aesthetic, publishing objectives, literacy myth, editorial operation, reading revolution, black publishers, club editors, serious fiction, analytical bibliography, book historians Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New England, New-York Magazine, United States, Charlotte Temple, Book-of-the-Month Club, Mathew Carey, New Haven, Agnes Hamilton, Willa Cather, Willa Lather, American Antiquarian Society, Jessie Hamilton, Alice Hamilton, Isaiah Thomas, Susanna Rowson, Sir Richard, American Quarterly, American Revolution, Edith Hamilton, Robinson Crusoe, Tale of Truth, Benjamin Franklin, Noah Webster, Civil War New!
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Histoire du livre in France, Geschichte des Buchwesens in Germany, "history of book" or "of the book" in English-speaking countries-its name varies from place to place, but everywhere it is being recognized as an important new discipline. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
artisan subscribers, black book publishers, high culture aesthetic, publishing objectives, literacy myth, editorial operation, reading revolution, black publishers, club editors, serious fiction, analytical bibliography, book historians Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New England, New-York Magazine, United States, Charlotte Temple, Book-of-the-Month Club, Mathew Carey, New Haven, Agnes Hamilton, Willa Cather, Willa Lather, American Antiquarian Society, Jessie Hamilton, Alice Hamilton, Isaiah Thomas, Susanna Rowson, Sir Richard, American Quarterly, American Revolution, Edith Hamilton, Robinson Crusoe, Tale of Truth, Benjamin Franklin, Noah Webster, Civil War New!
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- Charlotte Temple (Oxford Paperbacks) by Susanna Rowson on 14 pages
- Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America by Cathy N. Davidson on 10 pages
- The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom on 4 pages
- Review of Research in Education by Edmund W. Gordon on 4 pages
- My Antonia by Willa Cather on 4 pages
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- Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850–1910 (New Americanists) by Nancy Glazener on 6 pages
- The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist) by Martin Bruckner on 4 pages
- Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England by Jane Kamensky in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language) by James Collins in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response by James L. Machor on page 22, page 27, and page 176
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