Lit Quotes – Novels in Revolutionary America

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From The Social Structure of Revolutionary America by Jackson Turner Main:

The prejudice against novels shown by North Carolina farms was not shared by men of education.  Many such books were advertised in the newspapers, and when a Yale class disputed “Whether reading of Novels be advantageous,” the President himself decided “that it is advantageous in some measure, if not much attended to.”

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