Title The Word in the world : evangelical writing, publishing, and reading in America, 1789-1880 / Candy Gunther Brown.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
	©2004

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 336 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-321) and index.
Contents	What is evangelical print culture? -- The world of evangelical publishing -- Marks of membership in an evangelical canon -- Readers and writers navigate the currents of the market -- Earnestly contending for the faith -- Priesthood of all believers -- Singing with the spirit and the understanding -- Unifying the pilgrim community.
Summary	The evangelical publishing community has been growing for more than two hundred years. Candy Gunther Brown explores the roots of this far-flung conglomeration of writers, publishers, and readers, from the founding of the Methodist Book Concern in 1789 to the 1880 publication of the runaway best-seller Ben-Hur.
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Subject	Christian literature -- Publishing -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
	Christian literature -- Publishing.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	Christian literature -- Publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Evangelicalism -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
	Evangelicalism.
	Evangelicalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Christians -- Books and reading -- United States -- History.
	Christians -- Books and reading.
	Religious newspapers and periodicals -- United States -- History.
	Religious newspapers and periodicals.
	Music -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
	Music -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
	Christianity and culture -- United States -- History.
	Christianity and culture.
Chronological Term	1700-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books -- History.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Brown, Candy Gunther. Word in the world. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004 0807828386 0807855111 (DLC) 2003016297 (OCoLC)52775142
ISBN	0807863335 (electronic book)
	9780807863336 (electronic book)
	9780807828380 (alkaline paper)
	0807828386 (alkaline paper)
	9780807855119 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	0807855111 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

Title The Word in the world : evangelical writing, publishing, and reading in America, 1789-1880 / Candy Gunther Brown.

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