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Title Reading in America : literature & social history / edited by Cathy N. Davidson.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1989]
©1989

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  028.9 R287R    Check Shelf
Description vii, 307 pages ; 24 cm
Contents What is the history of books? / Robert Darnton -- Literacy instruction and gender in colonial New England / E. Jennifer Monaghan -- Chapbooks in America : reconstructing the popular reading of early America / Victor Neuburg -- A republican literature : magazine reading and readers in late-eighteenth-century New York / David Paul Nord -- The word in black and white : ideologies of race and literacy in antebellum America / Dana Nelson Salvino -- The life and times of Charlotte Temple : the biography of a book / Cathy N. Davidson -- Antebellum reading and the ironies of technological innovation / Ronald J. Zboray -- Sense and sensibility : a case study of women's reading in late-Victorian America / Barbara Sicherman -- Reflections on the changing publishing objectives of secular Black book publishers, 1900-1986 / Donald Franklin Joyce -- Becoming noncanonical : the case against Willa Cather / Sharon O'Brien -- The Book-of-the-Month Club and the general reader : the uses of "serious" fiction / Janice A. Radway -- Literacy and mass media : the political implications / Donald Lazere.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Books and reading -- United States -- History.
Literature and society -- United States -- History.
Books and reading -- Social aspects -- United States.
United States -- Intellectual life.
Popular culture -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions.
Added Author Davidson, Cathy N., 1949-
ISBN 0801837995 alkaline paper
0801838002 paperback alkaline paper
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