The clerk's tale : young men and moral life in nineteenth-century America /: young men and moral life in nineteenth-century America. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Thomas Augst.
• Other Names: Augst, Thomas
• Contents: Introduction: The Moral Economy of Literacy -- 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 -- Forms of Feeling: Habit, Leisure, 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (328 pages)
• Subjects: 305.242/0973/09034; Young men -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Young men -- United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Young men -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Self-culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Literacy -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Middle class -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Jeunes hommes -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle; Jeunes hommes -- États-Unis -- Vie intellectuelle -- 19e siècle; Culture personnelle -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle; Literacy -- Social aspects; Middle class; Self-culture; Social conditions; Young men; Young men -- Social conditions; Young men -- Social life and customs; Junger Mann; Mittelstand; Moralisches Handeln; Soziale Situation; Geistesleben; Literarisches Leben; Jongvolwassenen; Middenklassen; Sociale situatie; United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century; États-Unis -- Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle; United States; USA; USA; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226795737
• Related ISBNs: 9780226032191; 9780226032207
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.