Reading Fiction in Antebellum America Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820-1865 / James L. Machor. [print]

By:

Machor, James L [Author]

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Project Muse []

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEManufacturer: Baltimore, Maryland : Project MUSE, 2011Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 403 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780801899331

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LOC classification:

PS377
PS377.P964.R433 2011

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Contents:

part 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.

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part 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-- -- part 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.

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