Reading fiction in antebellum America : informed response and reception histories, 1820-1865 / James L. Machor.
| Author/creator |
Machor, James L. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, |
| Description | xiv, 403 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Contents | pt. 1. Reading reading historically. Historical hermeneutics, reception theory, and the social conditions of reading in antebellum America ; Interpretive strategies and informed reading in the antebellum public sphere -- pt. 2. Contextual receptions, reading experiences, and patterns of response: four case studies. "These days of double dealing": informed response, reader appropriation, and the tales of Poe ; Multiple audiences and Melville's fiction: receptions, recoveries, and regressions ; Response as (re)construction: the reception of Catharine Sedgwick's novels ; Mercurial readings: the making and unmaking of Caroline Chesebro'-- Conclusion: American literary history and the historical study of interpretive practices. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-391) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010022274 |
| ISBN | 9780801898747 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0801898749 (alk. paper) |
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