Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-century America

Richard H. Brodhead

Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-century America
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Country
United States
Published
1 November 1994
Pages
256
ISBN
9780226075266

Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-century America

Richard H. Brodhead

Using a variety of historical sources, Richard H. Brodhead reconstructs the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America: the middle-class domestic culture of letters, the culture of mass-produced cheap reading, the militantly hierarchical high culture of post-emancipation black education. He describes how these socially structured worlds of writing shaped the terms of literary practice for writers like Stowe, Hawthorne, Fanny Fern, Louisa May Alcott, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Charles Chesnutt.

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