Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America by Richard H. Brodhead

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

Richard H. Brodhead

256 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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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, t...

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