Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-193) and index.
Contents:
Education and the "Alexandrian library" -- Bibliographic nationalism : marketing America in Horace Mann's school library -- "Disorders of the circulating medium" : Hawthorne's early children's literature -- "Contact with the world" : Elizabeth Peabody's West Street bookshop -- "Conversation of a better order" : Margaret Fuller from the classroom to the dial -- Coda. "The sun is but a morning star".
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