Reading fiction in antebellum America :
Machor, James L.,
Reading fiction in antebellum America : informed response and reception histories, 1820-1865 / James L. Machor. - 1 online resource (418 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780801899331 (e-book)
American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Reader-response criticism--United States.
Authors and readers--History--United States--19th century.
Books and reading--History--United States--19th century.
Electronic books.
PS377 / .M33 2011
813/.309
Reading fiction in antebellum America : informed response and reception histories, 1820-1865 / James L. Machor. - 1 online resource (418 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780801899331 (e-book)
American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Reader-response criticism--United States.
Authors and readers--History--United States--19th century.
Books and reading--History--United States--19th century.
Electronic books.
PS377 / .M33 2011
813/.309