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The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste

By James D. Hart
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By James D. Hart
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The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste by James D. Hart traces how ordinary readers across four centuries have shaped, and been shaped by, what they read. Beginning with the utilitarian choices of the Mayflower settlers, Hart follows the growth of a reading public that consumed everything from psalm books, almanacs, and captivity narratives to sentimental novels, Gothic romances, and practical manuals. He reveals how America's literary marketplace grew in tandem with shifti...

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