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Reading books : essays on the material text and literature in America /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Moylan, Michele, 1963-, Stiles, Lane, 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [1996]
Series:Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
Subjects:
American literature > Criticism, Textual.
Literature publishing > United States > History.
Books > United States > Format > History > 19th century.
Books > United States > Format > History > 20th century.
Books and reading > United States > History > 19th century.
Books and reading > United States > History > 20th century.
Transmission of texts.
Literary form.
Table of Contents:
  • Dante in America: the first hundred years / Kathleen Verduin
  • The material Melville: shaping readers' horizons / Michael Kearns
  • Judging literary books by their covers: house styles, Ticknor and Fields, and literary promotion / Jeffrey D. Groves
  • Literature in newsprint: antebellum family newspapers and the uses of reading / Amy M. Thomas
  • Manufacturing intellectual equipment: the Tauchnitz edition of The Marble faun / Susan S. Williams
  • Finding his mark: Twain's The Innocents abroad as a subscription book / Nancy Cook
  • Defining the national pantheon: the making of Houghton Mifflin's Biographical series, 1880-1900 / Scott E. Casper
  • Materiality as performance: the forming of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona / Michele Moylan
  • Packaging literature for the high schools: from Riverside literature series to Literature and life / Lane Stiles.