03536nam 22007693u 450 991095952370332120200520144314.00-19-771093-X1-280-52623-897866105262390-19-534490-11-4294-0103-610.1093/oso/9780195075823.001.0001(CKB)1000000000403005(EBL)270855(OCoLC)191953299(SSID)ssj0000154459(PQKBManifestationID)11179390(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000154459(PQKBWorkID)10408365(PQKB)10192937(Au-PeEL)EBL270855(CaPaEBR)ebr10142039(CaONFJC)MIL52623(OCoLC)1406786952(StDuBDS)9780197710937(OCoLC)25049373(FINmELB)ELB166333(MiAaPQ)EBC270855(EXLCZ)99100000000040300519931116e20231993 uy |engur|n|---|||||txtccrA fictive people antebellum economic development and the American reading public /Ronald J. Zboray1st ed.New York ;Oxford University Press,2023.1 online resource (349 p.)Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 1993.0-19-507582-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-304) and index.Contents; Tables, Maps, Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Reading and the Ironies of Technological Innovation; 2. The Publisher's Market; 3. The Book Peddler and Literary Dissemination; 4. The Transportation Revolution and Book Distribution; 5. The Railroad, the Community, and the Book; 6. Family, Church, and Academy; 7. The Common School and Other Institutions; 8. The Letter and the Reading Public; 9. Numeracy, the News, and Self-culture; 10. The Interior Organization of a Bookstore; 11. Gender and Boundlessness in Reading Patterns; 12. Time, Space, and ChaosAppendix 1: Regionalism, Literacy, and Economic DevelopmentAppendix 2: Categories in the Analytical Catalogue (1850) of the New York Society Library; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; YThis text aims to explode two notions that are commonplace in American cultural histories of the 19th century: that the spread of literature was a simple force for the democratization of taste, and that there was a body of 19th-century literature that reflected "a nation of readers".Oxford scholarship online.Books and readingUnited StatesHistory19th centuryAmerican literatureAppreciationUnited StatesHistory19th centuryBook industries and tradeUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPopular cultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesEconomic conditionsTo 1865Books and readingHistoryAmerican literatureAppreciationHistoryBook industries and tradeHistoryPopular cultureHistory028/.9/097309034Zboray Ronald J.1852449UkUkStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910959523703321A fictive people4447622UNINA