Novels, Readers, and Reviewers , livre ebook

Cornell University Press - Nina Baym

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288 pages

English

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This book describes and characterizes responses of American readers to fiction in the generation before the Civil War. It is based on close examination of the reviews of all novels-both American and European-that appeared in major American periodicals during the years 1840-1860, a period in which magazines, novels, and novel reviews all proliferated. Nina Baym makes uses of the reviews to gain information about the formal, aesthetic, and moral expectations of reviewers. Her major conclusion is that the accepted view about the American novel before the Civil War-the view that the atmosphere in America was hostile to fiction-is a myth. There is compelling evidence, she shows, for the existence of a veritable novel industry and, concomitantly, a vast audience for fiction in the 1840s and 1850s.

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 mars 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501726187
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	9 Mo

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