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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| Sprache: | eng |
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Amherst, Boston
University of Masschusetts Press
2020
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Criticism / United States / History / 19th century
> American literature / 19th century / History and criticism
> Book industries and trade / United States / History / 19th century
> Publishers and publishing / United States / History / 19th century
> Books and reading / United States / History / 19th century
> USA
> Literatur
> Buchproduktion
> Geschichte 1830-1860
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "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 the multiplicity of critique in the period from 1830 to 1860 by exploring the critical forms that emerged. Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites is organized around these sometimes chaotic and often generative forms and their most famous practitioners: Edgar Allan Poe and the magazine review; Ralph Waldo Emerson and the quarterly essay; Rufus Wilmot Griswold and the literary anthology; Margaret Fuller and the newspaper book review; and Frederick Douglass's editorial repurposing of criticism from other sources. Revealing the many and frequently competing uses of criticism beyond evaluation and aesthetics, this insightful study offers a new vision of antebellum criticism, a new model of critical history, and a powerful argument for the centrality of literary criticism to modern life"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | X, 338 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781625344526 9781625344533 9781613766972 9781613766965 |