The intimacy of paper in early and nineteenth-century American literature /

"The true scale of paper production in America from 1690 through the end of the nineteenth century was staggering, with a range of parties participating in different ways, from farmers growing flax to textile workers weaving cloth and from housewives saving rags to peddlers collecting them. Mak...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Senchyne, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]
Series:Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Paper Publics and Material Textual Affiliations in American Print Culture
  • Chapter 2: The Gender of Rag Paper in Anne Bradstreet and Lydia Sigourney
  • Chapter 3: The Ineffable Socialities of Rags in Henry David Thoreau and Herman Melville
  • Chapter 4: The Whiteness of the Page: Racial Legibility and Authenticity.