The McGuffey readers, selections from the 1879 edition. Edited with an introduction by Elliott J. Gorn
Boston: Bedford / St. Martin's, 1998. Paperback. xv, 202p., softbound, 8x5.5 inch wraps, textual and pictorial selections, very good condition. The Bedford series in history and culture.
From p.31: "Even in their golden age, the McGuffey readers were never simply a snapshot of nineteenth-century America. A better metaphor is to think of them as a map for building a national culture, one drawn by bourgeois Protestants who were white, largely descended from English and Western Eruropean stock, and who expected the country to be just like them"
Cat.No: 195272
ISBN: 0312133987
Price: $12.00
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