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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Moral Economy of Literacy
Chapter One
Accounting for Character: Diaries and the Moral Practice of Everyday Life The Coin of Character Memory and the Commonplace Tradition Self-Examination and the Devotions of Literacy Time Is Money: The Value of the Future Equality of Aspiration
Chapter Two
Forms of Feeling: Habit, Sociability, and the Domestication of Literary Taste The Drill of Nature: Habits of Writing across Time Letters and the Debts of Family The Profit of Pleasure The Art of Conversation Sentimental Pathos and the Conventions of Intimacy
Chapter Three
Popular Philosophy and Democratic Voice: Emerson in the Lecture Hall Becoming Whole: The Struggle for Composure Modes of Civic Education: The Public Lecture The Eloquence of Moral Life
Chapter Four
Making Society out of Books: The New York Mercantile Library and the Enterprise of Reading Circulating Libraries and the Business of Books Reading and Breeding for the Profession The Liberty of Intellect and the Taste for Fiction
Chapter Five
The Melancholy of White-Collar Work: Professional Ethos and the Modern Literary Sphere The Blank Page and the Place of Writing The Credit of Character, in Parts and Whole Professional Authorship and the Literary Sphere Epilogue: Debris from the Business of Living Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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James Saxton
reviewed The clerk's tale on March 14, 2008
The clerk's tale
This was assigned for an American Studies class I took. I read so much about women in the 19th century, this was an interesting change of pace. If you are interested in print culture and changing reading practices, I think you would enjoy this book.
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