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Reading Fiction in Antebellum America Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820–1865 / by Machor, James L.

Table of Contents: “…"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.…”
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