Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America

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Tác giả: David M Stewart

Ngôn ngữ: eng

ISBN-10: 0814211585

ISBN-10: 0814270816

ISBN-13: 978-0814211588

ISBN-13: 978-0814270813

Ký hiệu phân loại: 020.9 Historical, geographic, persons treatment

Thông tin xuất bản: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, 2011

Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (264 pages) : , illustrations, maps

Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở

ID: 312672

"Historians of workingmen in the antebellum United States have long been preoccupied with labor politics and with the racism, nativism, and misogyny of their public culture. Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America expands our account of such men by asking questions about their social and bodily lives that are more discrete, yet still engaged with the economic forces that radically altered working life as the market revolution transformed a rural, agricultural nation into one that was commercial, industrial, and urban.""To advance a more capacious view of workingmen, David M. Stewart turns to reading, which is where many first encountered antebellum change as a material fact. Tapping sources from serial fiction, reform tracts, and children's books, to diet, land use policy, and personal correspondence, Stewart contends that in helping retool a workforce of farmers and artisans to meet the disciplinary needs of capital, the period's burgeoning new print culture industry developed rhetoric that used emotional coercion to affect conduct. This rhetoric also became the basis for recreational idioms that compensated for the pain of both coercive reading itself and the world such reading produced. In the space between the disciplinary and recreational lives of workingmen, Reading and Disorder revises how we understand them as performative subjects, which is to say, as cause and effect of changing antebellum times"--Publisher's description
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