Reading acts : U.S. readers' interactions with literature, 1800-1950

Reading acts : U.S. readers' interactions with literature, 1800-1950 / edited by Barbara Ryan and Amy M. Thomas.

Other author/creator	Ryan, Barbara, 1958-
Other author/creator	Thomas, Amy M., 1959-
Format	Book and Print
Edition	1st ed.
Publication Info	Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2002.
Description	xv, 289 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	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.

Contents	Blunted hearts : female readers and printed authority in the early republic / Elisabeth B. Nichols -- This cultivated mind : reading and identity in a nineteenth-century reader / Alison M. Scott -- Reading women/women reading : the making of learned women in antebellum America / Mary Kelley -- The reader retailored : Thomas Carlyle, his American audiences, and the politics of evidence / Leon Jackson -- Reading the silences : documenting the history of American Tract Society readers in the antebellum South / Amy M. Thomas -- Reading and middle-class identity in Victorian America : cultural consumption, conspicuous and otherwise / Barbara Sicherman -- A real basis from which to judge : fan mail to Gene Stratton-Porter / Barbara Ryan -- Ornaments, tools, or friends : literary reading at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers, 1921-1938 / Jane Greer -- Pulp fictions and problem girls : reading and rewriting single pregnancy in the postwar United States / Regina G. Kunzel -- You make us articulate : reading, education, and community in Dorothy Canfield's middlebrow America / Jennifer Parchesky -- They flash upon that inward eye : poetry recitation and American readers / Joan Shelley Rubin.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-282) and index.
LCCN	2001005651
ISBN	1572331828 (acid-free paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	Z1003.2 .R39 2002	✔ Available	Place Hold