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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| Language: | English |
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Amherst ; Boston :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[2020]
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| 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.