{"product_id":"cultures-of-letters-9780226075266","title":"Cultures of Letters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing a variety of historical sources, Brodhead reconstructs the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America:  the domestic culture of letters; mass-produced cheap reading; the culture of post-emancipation black education. He describes how these socially structured worlds shaped literary practice for writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Introduction: On the Idea of Cultures of Letters  1: Sparing the Rod: Discipline and Fiction in Antebellum America  2: Veiled Ladies: Toward a History of Antebellum Entertainment  3: Starting Out in the 1860s: Alcott, Authorship, and the Postbellum  Literary Field  4: The Reading of Regions  For a History of Literary Access  The Reading of Regions: A Study in the Social Life of Forms  5: Jewett, Regionalism, and Writing as Women's Work  6: \"Why Could Not a Colored Man?\": Chesnutt and the Transaction of  Authorship  Notes  Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49399933829463,"sku":"9780226075266","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226075266.jpg?v=1730469187","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cultures-of-letters-9780226075266","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}