Moral enterprise
Subtitle: literature and education in antebellum America
By: Derek Pacheco
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780814212387; 9780814293409
Subjects: American literature; History and criticism; Popular education; History; Literature and society; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-193) and index.
Table of contents: title: Education and the "Alexandrian library"; title: Bibliographic nationalism : marketing America in Horace Mann's school library; title: "Disorders of the circulating medium" : Hawthorne's early children's literature; title: "Contact with the world" : Elizabeth Peabody's West Street bookshop; title: "Conversation of a better order" : Margaret Fuller from the classroom to the dial; title: Coda. "The sun is but a morning star".