Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience Among Antebellum New Englanders

by Mary Saracino Zboray and Ronald J. Zboray

Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience among Antebellum New Englanders takes an unprecedented look at the use of literature in everyday life in one of history's most literate societies-the home ground of the American Renaissance. Using information pulled from four thousand manuscript letters and diaries, Everyday Ideas provides a comprehensive picture of how the social and literary dimensions of human existence related in antebellum New England.Penned...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572334711
• ISBN13: 9781572334717
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"