@book{12478,
  author = {Richard H. Brodhead},
  title = {Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America},
  year = {1993},
  pages = {245 pp.},
  publisher = {University of Chicago Press},
  address = {Chicago, IL},
  isbn = {9780226075259},
  note = {Contents:
Introduction :; On the idea of cultures of letters 
Sparing the rod : discipline and fiction in antebellum America 
Veiled ladies : toward a history of antebellum entertainment 
Starting out in the 1860s : Alcott, authorship, and the postbellum literary field 
The reading of regions:; For a history of literary access
The reading of regions : a study in the social life of forms 
Jewett, regionalism, and writing as women's work 
"Why could not a colored man?" : Chesnutt and the transaction of authorship},
  language = {English},
}