Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America /

"To advance a more capacious view of workingmen, David M. Stewart turns to reading, which is where many first encountered antebellum change as a material fact. Tapping sources from serial fiction, reform tracts, and children's books, to diet, land use policy, and personal correspondence, S...

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Autore principale: Stewart, David M. (David Malcolm), 1953-
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2011]
Serie:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sommario:
  • Introduction. Reading and recreation in antebellum America
  • Part 1. City crime. City reading ; Theorizing disorder ; The erotics of space ; Narrating excess
  • Part 2. Bodily style. Reading bodies ; Cultural diet ; Accusing victims ; Men in public
  • Part 3. The poetics of intimacy. Intimacies of disorder ; Social poetics ; Sex and the police ; The joys of seduction ; The mysteries of chumship ; The trouble with men.