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Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response

by James L. Machor
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780801844379
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
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  • Pages: 320
  • Original Price: GBP 25.5
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 413 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): American / General

Nineteenth-century America witnesses an unprecedented rise in reading activity as a result of increasing literacy, advances in printing and book production, and improvements in transporting printed material. As the act of reading took on new cultural and intellectual significance, American writers had to adjust to changes in their relationship with a growing audience.

Calling for a new emphasis on historical analysis, Readers in History reconsiders reader-response and reception approaches to the shifting contexts of reading in nineteenth-century America. James L. Machor and his contirbutors dispute the "essentializing tendency" of much reader-response criticism to date, arguing that reading and the textual construction of audience can best be understood in light of historically specific interpretive practices, ideological frames, and social conditions. Employing a variety of perspectives and methods--including feminism, deconstruction, and cultural criticsim--the essays in this volume demonstrate the importance of historical inquiry for exploring the dynamics of audience engagement.

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