| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xv, 289 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282) and index. |
| Contents |
Blunted hearts : female readers and printed authority in the early republic / Elisabeth B. Nichols -- This cultivated mind : reading and identity in a nineteenth-century reader / Alison M. Scott -- Reading women/women reading : the making of learned women in antebellum America / Mary Kelley -- The reader retailored : Thomas Carlyle, his American audiences, and the politics of evidence / Leon Jackson -- Reading the silences : documenting the history of American Tract Society readers in the antebellum South / Amy M. Thomas -- Reading and middle-class identity in Victorian America : cultural consumption, conspicuous and otherwise / Barbara Sicherman -- A real basis from which to judge : fan mail to Gene Stratton-Porter / Barbara Ryan -- Ornaments, tools, or friends : literary reading at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, 1921-1938 / Jane Greer -- Pulp fictions and problem girls : reading and rewriting single pregnancy in the postwar United States / Regina G. Kunzel -- You make us articulate : reading, education, and community in Dorothy Canfield's middlebrow America / Jennifer Parchesky -- They flash upon that inward eye : poetry recitation and American readers / Joan Shelley Rubin. |
| Subject |
Books and reading -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Books and reading -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Books and reading. |
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Books and reading -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society. |
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- Books and reading. |
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Women -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Ryan, Barbara, 1958-
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Thomas, Amy M., 1959-
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| ISBN |
1572331828 acid-free paper |
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