TY - SER
AU - David M. Stewart
CY - Columbus, OH
LA - English
N1 -
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.
PB - Ohio State University Press
PP - Columbus, OH
PY - 2011
SN - 978-0-8142-1158-8
EP - 242 pp.
TI - Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America
ER -