Making society out of books
Subtitle: character, self-fashioning, and the rhetoric of market culture in nineteenth-century America
By: a thesis presented by Thomas Edward Augst
Published: 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; American literature; History and criticism; Marketing; History
Notes: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1996

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 259-266).

Helen Choate Bell Dissertation Prize--Harvard University, 1997.