Reading in America

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. What is the History of Books?
Chapter 2. Literacy Instruction and Gender in Colonial New England
Chapter 3. Chapbooks in America
Chapter 4. A Republican Literature
Chapter 5. The World in Black and White
Chapter 6. The Life and Times of Charlotte Temple
Chapter 7. Antebellum Reading and the Ironies of Technological Innovation
Chapter 8. Sense and Sensibility
Chapter 9. Reflections on the Changing Publishing Objectives of Secular Black Book Publishers, 1900-1986
Chapter 10. Becoming Noncanonical
Chapter 11. The Book-of-the-Month Club and the General Reader
Chapter 12. Literacy and Mass Media
Contributors