Everyday ideas
Subtitle: socioliterary experience among antebellum New Englanders
By: Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray.
Contributors: Zboray, Mary Saracino, 1953-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Books and reading -- New England -- History -- 19th century.; Literature -- Appreciation -- New England -- History -- 19th century.; Authorship -- Social aspects -- New England.; American diaries -- New England.; American letters -- New England.; Literature and society -- New England -- History -- 19th century.; Popular culture -- New England -- History -- 19th century.; New England -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Description: "Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience among Antebellum New Englanders takes a look at the use of literature in everyday life in one of history's most literate societies - the home ground of the American Renaissance. Using information pulled from four thousand manuscript letters and diaries, Everyday Ideas provides a comprehensive picture of how the social and literary dimensions of human existence related in antebellum New England." "An important aid in understanding historical readers and social authorship practices, Everyday Ideas is a unique resource on New England and provides a framework for understanding the profound role of ideas in the everyday world of the antebellum period."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Creating the text of life : motives and practices of diarists and correspondents; title: Creating texts from other texts : deploying preexisting literature; title: Everyday literature : writing within genre conventions; title: Everyday dissemination : literature sent via letters, newspapers, and bundles; title: On account of the donor : presenting and receiving literary gifts; title: Through many hands : lending and borrowing reading material; title: Literary performances : dissemination through reading aloud, recitation, and enactment; title: Receiving the word : literary socialization and modes of readings; title: Personal ideals and social realities : finding time to read; title: Within the collective : receiving public lectures and readings; title: Social imprints : reception of books and periodicals as objects; title: The sayings and doings of nobodies : everyday reception of the printed word.