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Popular American Literature of the 19th Century - Softcover

 
9780756771843: Popular American Literature of the 19th Century
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This unique collection captures some of the excitement & diversity of the immensely prolific print culture that formed & framed 19th-cent. Amer. life & thought, making available material that is not readily available today but which was vital to the culture & daily conversations of the period. It collects examples of a wide range of lit. including tracts, plays, poems, gift books, dime novels, school books, & serialized newspaper novels. Featuring 15 works in their entirety & several more in extensive excerpts, the selections cover many important themes including singleness & marriage, domesticity & gender roles, masculinity, proper conduct, social reform, temperance, religion, urban & rural life, race, slavery, class, science, business & more. Illustrated.

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Paul C. Gutjahr is at Indiana University, Bloomington.
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''This is a delight--I'm grateful to find Maria Monk, the dramatic version of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Fowler's Phrenology in the same text.'' ----Byron Nelson, West Virginia University

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