TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gordon,Adam
TI  - Prophets, publicists, and parasites: antebellum print culture and the rise of the critic 
SN  - 9781613766965
AV  - PS74 .P767 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Amherst
PB  - University of Masschusetts Press
KW  - Criticism
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Book industries and trade
KW  - Publishers and publishing
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - "Print culture expanded significantly in the nineteenth century due to new print technologies and more efficient distribution methods, providing literary critics, who were alternately celebrated and reviled, with an ever-increasing number of venues to publish their work. Adam Gordon embraces the multiplicity of critique in the period from 1830 to 1860 by exploring the critical forms that emerged. Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites is organized around these sometimes chaotic and often generative forms and their most famous practitioners: Edgar Allan Poe and the magazine review; Ralph Waldo Emerson and the quarterly essay; Rufus Wilmot Griswold and the literary anthology; Margaret Fuller and the newspaper book review; and Frederick Douglass's editorial repurposing of criticism from other sources. Revealing the many and frequently competing uses of criticism beyond evaluation and aesthetics, this insightful study offers a new vision of antebellum criticism, a new model of critical history, and a powerful argument for the centrality of literary criticism to modern life"--
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