Reading and disorder in antebellum America
By: David M. Stewart
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780814211588; 9780814292570
Subjects: Books and reading; Men; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reading and recreation in antebellum America; title: City reading; title: Theorizing disorder; title: The erotics of space; title: Narrating excess; title: Reading bodies; title: Cultural diet; title: Accusing victims; title: Men in public; title: Intimacies of disorder; title: Social poetics; title: Sex and the police; title: The joys of seduction; title: The mysteries of chumship; title: The trouble with men.