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Moral enterprise : literature and education in antebellum America
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- Creator
- Derek Pacheco
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2013]
- ©2013
- Physical Details
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- x, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0814212387, 9780814271179, 9780814212387, 9780814293409, 0814293409, 0814271170
- OCLC
- ocn869303945, ocn838793023
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index.
- Education and the "Alexandrian library" -- Bibliographic nationalism : marketing America in Horace Mann's school library -- "Disorders of the circulating medium" : Hawthorne's early children's literature -- "Contact with the world" : Elizabeth Peabody's West Street bookshop -- "Conversation of a better order" : Margaret Fuller from the classroom to the dial -- Coda. "The sun is but a morning star"
Subjects
- Mann, Horace, 1796-1859 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Popular education -- New England -- History -- 19th century.
- Literature and society -- New England -- History -- 19th century.