Moral enterprise [electronic resource] : literature and education in antebellum America / Derek Pacheco.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)ISBN:- 9780814271179
- 0814271170
- Literature and society -- New England -- History -- 19th century
- Popular education -- New England -- History -- 19th century
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Mann, Horace, 1796-1859 -- Criticism and interpretation
- 810.9/3557 23
- PS208 .P33 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Education and the "Alexandrian library" -- Bibliographic nationalism : marketing America in Horace Mann's school library -- "Disorders of the circulating medium" : Hawthorne's early children's literature -- "Contact with the world" : Elizabeth Peabody's West Street bookshop -- "Conversation of a better order" : Margaret Fuller from the classroom to the dial -- Coda. "The sun is but a morning star".
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