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
- Title:
- The clerk's tale : young men and moral life in nineteenth-century America /: young men and moral life in nineteenth-century America. (2020)
- Main Title:
- The clerk's tale : young men and moral life in nineteenth-century America
- 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).
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- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.566021
- Ingest File:
- 04_032.xml