Reading in America : literature & social history / edited by Cathy N. Davidson.
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[1989]
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Table of 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.