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Reading Fiction in Antebellum America: Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820--1865
Reading Fiction in Antebellum America Informed Response and Reception Histories 18201865
Author: James L. Machor
James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War. Machor takes four antebellum authors -- Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Catharine Sedgwick, and Caroline Chesebro' -- and analyzes how their works were published, received, and interpr...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801898747
ISBN-10: 0801898749
Publication Date: 2/16/2011
Pages: 424
Edition: 1
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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