: informed response and reception histories, 1820-1865
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\ James L. Machor.
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Baltimore
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: Johns Hopkins University Press
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, 2011.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xiv, 403 p.
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;24 cm.
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Index
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CONTENTS NOTE
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pt. 1. Reading reading historically. Historical hermeneutics, reception theory, and the social conditions of reading in antebellum America ; Interpretive strategies and informed reading in the antebellum public sphere -- pt. 2. Contextual receptions, reading experiences, and patterns of response: four case studies. "These days of double dealing": informed response, reader appropriation, and the tales of Poe ; Multiple audiences and Melville's fiction: receptions, recoveries, and regressions ; Response as (re)construction: the reception of Catharine Sedgwick's novels ; Mercurial readings: the making and unmaking of Caroline Chesebro'-- Conclusion: American literary history and the historical study of interpretive practices.
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.