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Everyday ideas : socioliterary experience among antebellum New Englanders
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Everyday ideas : socioliterary experience among antebellum New Englanders / Ronald J. Zboray, Mary Saracino Zboray.
ISBN
1572334711 (acid-free paper)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2006.
Physical Description
xxv, 430 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 06, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-400) and index.
Contents
Creating the text of life : motives and practices of diarists and correspondents
Creating texts from other texts : deploying preexisting literature
Everyday literature : writing within genre conventions
Everyday dissemination : literature sent via letters, newspapers, and bundles
On account of the donor : presenting and receiving literary gifts
Through many hands : lending and borrowing reading material
Literary performances : dissemination through reading aloud, recitation, and enactment
Receiving the word : literary socialization and modes of readings
Personal ideals and social realities : finding time to read
Within the collective : receiving public lectures and readings
Social imprints : reception of books and periodicals as objects
The sayings and doings of nobodies : everyday reception of the printed word.
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