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Prophets, publicists, and parasites : antebellum print culture and the rise of the critic /

"Print culture expanded significantly in the nineteenth century due to new print technologies and more efficient distribution methods, providing literary critics, who were alternately celebrated and reviled, with an ever-increasing number of venues to publish their work. Adam Gordon embraces th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gordon, Adam, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst and Boston : University of Masschusetts Press, [2020]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Critic in the Age of Industrial Print
  • Cutting Corners with Emerson: Quarterly Reviews and Intellectual Culture
  • Anthology Wars: Rufus Griswold and the Compilation as Literary History
  • Reviewers Reviewed: Poe, Monthly Magazines, and the Critical Vocation
  • Black, White, and Read All Over: Margaret Fuller and the Newspaper Book Review
  • Slavery Reviewed: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Critical Reprinting
  • Coda: From the Steam Press to Amazon.com: Critical Forms for the Twenty-First Century