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Pacheco, Derek Andrew, 1976-

Moral Enterprise Literature and Education in Antebellum America / Derek Pacheco. - 1 online resource (240 p.) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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".

Open Access

ISBN: 9780814271179 0814271170

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Subjects--Personal Names:
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.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Literature and society--History--New England--19th century.
Popular education--History--New England--19th century.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS208 / .P33 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9/3557