Reading acts
Subtitle: U.S. readers' interactions with literature, 1800-1950
By: edited by Barbara Ryan and Amy M. Thomas.
Contributors: Ryan, Barbara, 1958-; Thomas, Amy M., 1959-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Books and reading -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Books and reading -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Women -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Women -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-282) and index.
Table of contents: title: Blunted hearts : female readers and printed authority in the early republic / Elisabeth B. Nichols; title: This cultivated mind : reading and identity in a nineteenth-century reader / Alison M. Scott; title: Reading women/women reading : the making of learned women in antebellum America / Mary Kelley; title: The reader retailored : Thomas Carlyle, his American audiences, and the politics of evidence / Leon Jackson; title: Reading the silences : documenting the history of American Tract Society readers in the antebellum South / Amy M. Thomas; title: Reading and middle-class identity in Victorian America : cultural consumption, conspicuous and otherwise / Barbara Sicherman; title: A real basis from which to judge : fan mail to Gene Stratton-Porter / Barbara Ryan; title: Ornaments, tools, or friends : literary reading at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, 1921-1938 / Jane Greer; title: Pulp fictions and problem girls : reading and rewriting single pregnancy in the postwar United States / Regina G. Kunzel; title: You make us articulate : reading, education, and community in Dorothy Canfield's middlebrow America / Jennifer Parchesky; title: They flash upon that inward eye : poetry recitation and American readers / Joan Shelley Rubin.