{"product_id":"moral-enterprise-derek-pacheco-9780814254493","title":"Moral Enterprise: Literature and Education in Antebellum America","description":"\u003ci\u003eMoral Enterprise: Literature and Education i\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003en Antebellum America, \u003c\/i\u003e by Derek Pacheco, investigates an important moment in the history of professional authorship. 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. Although today's schools are staffed by systematically trained and institutionally sanctioned teachers, in the unregulated, decentralized world of antebellum America, literary men and women sought the financial stability of teaching while claiming it as moral grounds for the pursuit of greater literary fame. Examining the ethically redemptive and potentially lucrative definition of antebellum author as educator, this book traces the way these literary reformers aimed not merely at social reform \u003ci\u003ethrough\u003c\/i\u003e literature but also at the reform \u003ci\u003eof\u003c\/i\u003e literature itself by employing a wide array of practices-authoring, editing, publishing, and distributing printed texts-brought together under the aegis of modern, democratic education. \u003ci\u003eMoral Enterprise\u003c\/i\u003e identifies such endeavors by their dual valence as bold, reformist undertakings \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e economic ventures, exploring literary texts as educational commodities that might act as entry points into, and ways to tame, what Mann characterized as the \"Alexandrian library\" of American print culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Derek Pacheco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814254497\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814254493\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/10\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d","brand":"Derek Pacheco","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086914138367,"sku":"9780814254493","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6703ffaa-0c75-45b2-ab30-b87e29c080a5.jpg?v=1769097292","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/moral-enterprise-derek-pacheco-9780814254493","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}