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...
Na minha lista:
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Recurso Electrónico livro electrónico |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Publicado em: |
Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2011]
|
| Colecção: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Assuntos: | |
| Acesso em linha: | Full text available: |
| Tags: |
Adicionar Tag
Sem tags, seja o primeiro a adicionar uma tag!
|
Sumário:
- 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.