[PDF.31kc] The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter

The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter

[PDF.gx29] The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from The New England Primer to The Scarlet Letter

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 | #1312622 in Books |  Stanford University Press |  2002-12-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.50 x.80 x6.00l,.87 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| J is for joyous|By A Customer|This unusual,lively work of scholarship explains the changing use (and appearance) of the alphabet--in U.S. pedagogy and also in American fiction--between the late seventeenth century and today. The initial presentation of the alphabet to young readers, Crain argues, says much about American notions of pleasure and privacy on the one hand, morali| |"The book impresses constantly with its scholarly scope while dazzling the reader with its intensity and intellectual rigor. Aside from its fresh and incisive argument, the book's meticulously researched archive of early American primers, ABC books, an

Richly illustrated with often antic images from alphabet books and primers, The Story of A relates the history of the alphabet as a genre of text for children and of alphabetization as a social practice in America, from early modern reading primers to the literature of the American Renaissance. Offering a poetics of alphabetization and explicating the alphabet's tropes and rhetorical strategies, the author demonstrates the far-reaching cultural power of such appar...

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