Reading with a Tender Rapture: Reveries of a Bachelor and the Rhetoric of Detached Intimacy

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2003
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"Reading with a Tender Rapture" examines readers' responses to Donald Grant Mitchell's best-selling sentimental work Reveries of a Bachelor (1850). This article was based upon a chapter in my dissertation, "Bachelors of Arts: Bachelorhood and the Construction of Literary Identity in Antebellum America" (2002). Copyright @ 2003 The Johns Hopkins University Press. This article first appeared in Book History, Volume 6, 2003, pages 57-93.

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Spiro, Lisa. "Reading with a Tender Rapture: Reveries of a Bachelor and the Rhetoric of Detached Intimacy." Book History, 6, (2003) Johns Hopkins University Press: 57-93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bh.2004.0013.

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