ISBN:
9780226795737
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (334 pages)
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DDC:
305.242/0973/09034
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Moral Economy of Literacy -- Chapter One: Accounting for Character: Diaries and the Moral Practice of Everyday Life -- Chapter Two: Forms of Feeling: Habit, Leisure, and the Domestication of Literary Taste -- Chapter Three: Popular Philosophy and Democratic Voice: Emerson in the Lecture Hall -- Chapter Four: Making Society out of Books: The New York Mercantile Library and the Enterprise of Reading -- Chapter Five: The Melancholy of White-Collar Work: Professional Ethos and the Modern Literary Sphere -- Epilogue: Debris from the Business of Living -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
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