Reading acts : U.S. readers' interactions with literature, 1800-1950 / edited by Barbara Ryan and Amy M. Thomas.

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Other Authors: Ryan, Barbara, 1958-, Thomas, Amy M., 1959-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2002.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of 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.