TY  - BOOK
AU  - Machor,James L.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Reading Fiction in Antebellum America : : Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820–1865 / 
SN  - 9781421428178
AV  - PS377 .M33 2011
U1  - 813/.309 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Authors and readers
KW  - Reader-response criticism
KW  - American fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-391) and index; 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; Open Access
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/42/
ER  -