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The Clerk's Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America Book

The Clerk's Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America
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  • The Clerk's Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America
  • Written by author Thomas Augst
  • Published by University of Chicago Press, November 2003
  • Thousands of men left their families for the bustling cities of nineteenth-century America, where many of them found work as clerks. The Clerk's Tale recounts their remarkable story, describing the struggle of aspiring businessmen to come of age at
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Moral Economy of Literacy1
Ch. 1Accounting For Character: Diaries and the Moral Practice of Everyday Life19
Ch. 2Forms of Feeling: Habit, Leisure, and the Domestication of Literary Taste62
Ch. 3Popular Philosophy and Democratic Voice: Emerson in the Lecture Hall114
Ch. 4Making Society out of Books: The New York Mercantile Library and the Enterprise of Reading158
Ch. 5The Melancholoy of White-Collar Work: Professional Ethos and the Modern Literary Sphere207
Epilogue: Debris from the Business of Living255
Notes269
Selected Bibliography305
Index309


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