Reading Fiction in Antebellum America : Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820–1865 /

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1. autor: Machor, James L.
Format: Elektroniczne E-book
Język:angielski
Wydane: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
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Spis treści:
  • 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.