The Story of a: The Alphabetization of America from the New England Primer to the Scarlet Letter

by Patricia Crain

Book Overview

Richly illustrated with often antic images from alphabet books and primers, The Story of A relates the history of the alphabet as a genre of text for children and of alphabetization as a social practice in America, from early modern reading primers to the literature of the American Renaissance.

Offering a poetics of alphabetization and explicating the alphabet's tropes and rhetorical strategies, the author demonstrates the far-reaching...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804731748
• ISBN13: 9780804731744
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"