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Everyday Ideas
Ronald J. Zboray
Mary Saracino Zboray
其他書名
Socioliterary Experience Among Antebellum New Englanders
出版
Univ. of Tennessee Press
, 2006
主題
History / United States / 19th Century
History / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / Authorship
Literary Collections / Letters
Literary Collections / Diaries & Journals
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / Canadian
Literary Criticism / Books & Reading
Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century
Social Science / Popular Culture
ISBN
1572334711
9781572334717
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5UjyIXejdg0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience among Antebellum New Englanders takes an unprecedented look at the use of literature in everyday life in one of history's most literate societies-the home ground of the American Renaissance. Using information pulled from four thousand manuscript letters and diaries, Everyday Ideas provides a comprehensive picture of how the social and literary dimensions of human existence related in antebellum New England. Penned by ordinary people-factory workers, farmers, clerks, storekeepers, domestics, and teachers and other professionals-the writings examined here brim with thoughtful references to published texts, lectures, and speeches by the period's canonized authors and lesser lights. These personal accounts also give an insider's perspective on issues ranging from economic problems, to social status conflicts, to being separated from loved ones by region, state, or nation. Everyday Ideas examines such references and accounts and interprets the multiple ways literature figured into the lives of these New Englanders. An important aid in understanding historical readers and social authorship practices, Everyday Ideas is a unique resource on New England and provides a framework for understanding the profound role of ideas in the everyday world of the antebellum period.