Machor, James L, <br/><br/>
Reading Fiction in Antebellum America  Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820-1865 /  [print] 
James L. Machor. 
 - Baltimore :  Johns Hopkins University Press,  (c)2011. 
 - 1 online resource (xiv, 403 pages) 
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780801899331 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century<br/>Authors and readers--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Books and reading--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Reader-response criticism--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS377 PS377.P964.R433 2011