@book{8311, author = {David M. Stewart}, title = {Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America}, year = {2011}, pages = {242 pp.}, publisher = {Ohio State University Press}, address = {Columbus, OH}, isbn = {978-0-8142-1158-8}, note = {Examines the reading habits of working class men. Contents Introduction. Reading and recreation in antebellum America Part 1. City crime. City reading ; Theorizing disorder ; The erotics of space ; Narrating excess Part 2. Bodily style. Reading bodies ; Cultural diet ; Accusing victims ; Men in public Part 3. The poetics of intimacy. Intimacies of disorder ; Social poetics ; Sex and the police ; The joys of seduction ; The mysteries of chumship ; The trouble with men.}, language = {English}, }