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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| Język: | angielski |
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2011]
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Spis treści:
- 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.