James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War.
James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War.
Sent back in time and forced to endure the realities of his enslaved ancestors, a rap artist suffers experiences that challenge everything he believes as learne
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
This book looks at working men in the antebellum United States by turning to reading, which is where many first encountered antebellum change as a material fact