Reading fiction in antebellum America : : informed response and reception histories, 1820-1865 / / James L. Machor.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2011. |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (418 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.