Moral Enterprise: Literature and Education in Antebellum America

Author/Contributor(s):	Pacheco, Derek
Publisher:	Ohio State University Press
Date:	07/10/2017
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Pacheco uses New England "literary reformers" Horace Mann, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Peabody, and Margaret Fuller to argue that writers came to see in educational reform, and the publication venues emerging in connection with it, a means to encourage popular authorship while validating literary work as a profession.