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".
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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.
Literature and society--History--New England--19th century. Popular education--History--New England--19th century. American literature--History and criticism.--19th century