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Readers in History

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response

James L Machor editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Published:1st Dec '92

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"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'

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. -- John Evelev Nineteenth-Century Prose 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 Pros

ISBN: 9780801844379

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 425g

320 pages