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Loading... A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Publicby Ronald J. Zboray
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This text aims to explode two notions that are commonplace in American cultural histories of the 19th century: that the spread of literature was a simple force for the democratization of taste, and that there was a body of 19th-century literature that reflected ""a nation of readers"". No library descriptions found. |
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