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• catalog abstract ""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 apparently neutral statements as "A is for apple." The new market for children's books in the eighteenth century established for the "republic of ABC" a cultural potency equivalent to its high-culture counterpart, the "republic of letters," while shaping its child-readers into consumers. As a central rite of socialization, alphabetization schooled children to conflicting expectations, as well as to changing models of authority, understandings of the world, and uses of literature."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b11968698.
• catalog coverage "United States Civilization.".
• catalog created "c2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "c2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
• catalog description ""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 apparently neutral statements as "A is for apple." The new market for children's books in the eighteenth century established for the "republic of ABC" a cultural potency equivalent to its high-culture counterpart, the "republic of letters," while shaping its child-readers into consumers. As a central rite of socialization, alphabetization schooled children to conflicting expectations, as well as to changing models of authority, understandings of the world, and uses of literature."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Alphabetical Order: The Genre of the Alphabet from the Christ-Cross Row to The New England Primer -- Icon and Ritual in the Crossrow: The Way of the Alphabet -- The Comenian Alphabet: What the Animals Said to Adam -- Letter/Image/Text in The New England Primer -- The Republic of ABC: Alphabetizing Americans, 1750-1850 -- Children and Images -- Children as Images -- Telling the Alphabet -- The Alphabet on Top -- "The Alphabet Turn'd Posture-Master": A Morphology of Alphabet Texts -- A Poetics of Alphabetization -- "That Mother's Kiss": The Alphabet, Gender, and Narrative -- Gender and the Alphabet -- The Space of the Alphabet -- Alphabetizing Things: The Narrating Woman -- The Technology of the Maternal: Alphabetical Order and Mother's Lips -- The Manns Among the Letters: Alphabet Plots -- WWW: The Wide, Wide World's Web -- A Renovated Crusoe -- Gender, Genre, and Replication in The Wide, Wide World -- Textual/Maternal/Commodity Networks -- Seeing Through Women -- Ellen as Emblem of Literacy -- "The Dividing Line": Alphabetic Realism, Narrative Authority, and the Erotics of Alphabetization -- The Story of A: Alphabetization in The Scarlet Letter -- The Importunate Letter -- A Priori: Hawthorne's Letter before The Letter -- Memories of Alphabetization in "The Custom-House" -- Allegory, Adultery, and Alphabetization -- "Behold a Spectacle of Blood": The Erotics of Alphabetization in The Scarlet Letter -- The Scarlet Letter as a Rite of Institution -- Epilogue: F, etc.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-300) and index.".
• catalog extent "xiii, 315 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0804731748 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "c2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "United States Civilization.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "302.2/244/0973 21".
• catalog subject "Alphabetizing United States History.".
• catalog subject "English language Alphabet Study and teaching United States.".
• catalog subject "Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Scarlet letter.".
• catalog subject "Language arts United States.".
• catalog subject "Literacy United States History.".
• catalog subject "New England primer.".
• catalog subject "PE2818 .C73 2000".
• catalog tableOfContents "Alphabetical Order: The Genre of the Alphabet from the Christ-Cross Row to The New England Primer -- Icon and Ritual in the Crossrow: The Way of the Alphabet -- The Comenian Alphabet: What the Animals Said to Adam -- Letter/Image/Text in The New England Primer -- The Republic of ABC: Alphabetizing Americans, 1750-1850 -- Children and Images -- Children as Images -- Telling the Alphabet -- The Alphabet on Top -- "The Alphabet Turn'd Posture-Master": A Morphology of Alphabet Texts -- A Poetics of Alphabetization -- "That Mother's Kiss": The Alphabet, Gender, and Narrative -- Gender and the Alphabet -- The Space of the Alphabet -- Alphabetizing Things: The Narrating Woman -- The Technology of the Maternal: Alphabetical Order and Mother's Lips -- The Manns Among the Letters: Alphabet Plots -- WWW: The Wide, Wide World's Web -- A Renovated Crusoe -- Gender, Genre, and Replication in The Wide, Wide World -- Textual/Maternal/Commodity Networks -- Seeing Through Women -- Ellen as Emblem of Literacy -- "The Dividing Line": Alphabetic Realism, Narrative Authority, and the Erotics of Alphabetization -- The Story of A: Alphabetization in The Scarlet Letter -- The Importunate Letter -- A Priori: Hawthorne's Letter before The Letter -- Memories of Alphabetization in "The Custom-House" -- Allegory, Adultery, and Alphabetization -- "Behold a Spectacle of Blood": The Erotics of Alphabetization in The Scarlet Letter -- The Scarlet Letter as a Rite of Institution -- Epilogue: F, etc.".
• catalog title "The story of A : the alphabetization of America from The New England primer to The scarlet letter / Patricia Crain.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".