Readers in history : nineteenth-century American literature and the contexts of response

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Readers in history : nineteenth-century American literature and the contexts of response

edited by James L. Machor

Johns Hopkins University Press, c1993

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references

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ISBN 9780801844362

内容説明

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.

目次

Introduction: Readers/Texts/Contexts Part I: Theory and the Historicizing of Reading Practices Chapter 1. Misreading as a Historical Act: Cultural Rhetoric, Bible Politics, and Fuller's 1845 Review of Douglass's Narrative Chapter 2. Sweet Away: Henry James, Margaret Fuller, and "The Last of the Valerii" Chapter 3. Historical Hermeneutics and Antebellum Fiction: Gender, Response Theory, and Interpretive Contexts Chapter 4. Feminism, New Historicism, and the Reader Part II: Reading Communities and the Contexts of Inscribed Audience Chapter 5. Cooper's Allegories of Reading and "the Wreck of the Past" Chapter 6. The Address of The Scarlet Letter Chapter 7. Poetry Readers and Reading in the 1890s: Emily Dickinson's First Reception Chapter 8. Probable Readers, Possible Stories: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Black Narrative Part III: Reading and Writing Against the Grain: Race, Gender, and Response Chapter 9. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Antebellum Black Response Chapter 10. Reading Before Marx: Margaret Fuller and the New-York Daily Tribune Chapter 11. Responding to the Text(s): Women Readers and the Quest for Higher Education Notes on Contributors
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: pbk ISBN 9780801844379

内容説明

"Presents a number of important Americanist scholars doing substantial and thought-provoking work. These scholars rethink responses to canonical works and come to important new undertsandings of women's and African American writing...'Readers in History' suggests that new attention to the social dynamics of reading will generate important new understandings of nineteenth-century American literature."--John Evelev, 'Nineteenth-Century Prose'

目次

Introduction: Readers/Texts/Contexts Part I: Theory and the Historicizing of Reading Practices Chapter 1. Misreading as a Historical Act: Cultural Rhetoric, Bible Politics, and Fuller's 1845 Review of Douglass's Narrative Chapter 2. Sweet Away: Henry James, Margaret Fuller, and "The Last of the Valerii" Chapter 3. Historical Hermeneutics and Antebellum Fiction: Gender, Response Theory, and Interpretive Contexts Chapter 4. Feminism, New Historicism, and the Reader Part II: Reading Communities and the Contexts of Inscribed Audience Chapter 5. Cooper's Allegories of Reading and "the Wreck of the Past" Chapter 6. The Address of The Scarlet Letter Chapter 7. Poetry Readers and Reading in the 1890s: Emily Dickinson's First Reception Chapter 8. Probable Readers, Possible Stories: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Black Narrative Part III: Reading and Writing Against the Grain: Race, Gender, and Response Chapter 9. Uncle Tom's Cabin and Antebellum Black Response Chapter 10. Reading Before Marx: Margaret Fuller and the New-York Daily Tribune Chapter 11. Responding to the Text(s): Women Readers and the Quest for Higher Education Notes on Contributors

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