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

by Richard H. Brodhead

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226075257
• ISBN13: 9780226075259
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"