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

 
9780801844379: Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0801844371 ISBN 13: 9780801844379
Verlag: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PR, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James L. Machor is associate professor of American literature at Kansas State University. He is the author of Pastoral Cities: Urban Ideals and the Symbolic Landscape of America.

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Verlag
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0801844371
ISBN 13 
9780801844379
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
Herausgeber
Machor James L.
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