Reading Books Essays on the Material Text and Literature in America

Name: Reading Books Essays on the Material Text and Literature in America
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ISBN: 9781558490635

ISBN-10: 1558490639

ISBN-13: 9781558490635

Edition: 1997

Authors: Michele Moylan, Lane Stiles, Michael Winship

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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Publication date: 3/10/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Michael Winship is Howard Regents Professor of English II at the University of Texas at Austin and author of American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields.



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Dante in America: The First Hundred Years



The Material Melville: Shaping Readers' Horizons



Judging Literary Books by Their Covers: House Styles, Ticknor and Fields, and Literary Promotion



Literature in Newsprint: Antebellum Family Newspapers and the Uses of Reading



Manufacturing Intellectual Equipment: The Tauchnitz Edition of The Marble Faun



Finding His Mark: Twain's The Innocents Abroad as a Subscription Book



Defining the National Pantheon: The Making of Houghton Mifflin's Biographical Series, 1880-1900



Materiality as Performance: The Forming of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona



Packaging Literature for the High Schools: From the Riverside Literature Series to Literature and Life



Contributors


Index