In the company of books : literature and its "classes" in nineteenth-century America /
Wadsworth, Sarah,1963-
Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-266) and index.
Prologue : following the reader -- Wonder books -- Stories of their lives -- Boy's life -- Seaside and fireside -- Innocence abroad -- A blue and gold mystique -- Epilogue : the margins of the marketplace.
Publishers and publishing
Booksellers and bookselling
Books and reading
Children's literature
Children
Authors and readers
American literature
Popular culture
Market segmentation