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

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

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Series: Chicago Guides to Academic Life

Literary CriticismGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 0226075265
ISBN13: 9780226075266
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Feb 7 1995
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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