Moral enterprise : literature and education in antebellum America /
Pacheco, Derek Andrew,1976-
Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University Press,
c2013.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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".
Mann, Horace, 1796-1859
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894
Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850
American literature
Popular education
Literature and society