Using letters written and diaries kept by 931 New Englanders living during the antebellum era, Ronald and Mary Zboray beneficially unsettle a number of grand narratives about readers and reading in the nineteenth-century United States. Since the influential work of theorist Rolf Engelsing, the turn from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century has been understood as the transition point from intensive reading and rereading of a select group of texts (such as the Bible) to extensive reading of many texts without rereading. Literary historians under the sway of Michel Foucault who have sought to chart the “rise of the novel” have described novel reading as an absorbed, solitary activity through which readers internalize social code...
Review of: Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution. ...
Times have changed. In the mid 1980s, when I wrote my biography of John Almon, a study of the reflex...
My dissertation examines popular authorship in the antebellum United States. Following the print exp...
Using letters written and diaries kept by 931 New Englanders living during the antebellum era, Ronal...
Knowledge through Reading The Intellectual Lives of Antebellum New Englanders Reading books and j...
In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print c...
In an 1830s review of Lydia Maria Child\u27s Good Wives published in Sarah Hale\u27s Ladies\u27 Maga...
Reviews of the following books: Ordinary People and Everyday Life edited by James B. Gardner and Ge...
Both these volumes demonstrate the exciting potential, as well as the pitfalls, of applying history-...
James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public an...
A literary look at Civil War-Era Society James L Machor sets himself an impressive task: to read con...
An ascendant scholarly narrative has understood the Enlightenment and Protestant call to universal b...
Scenes of Reading: Forgotten Antebellum Readers, Self-Representation, and the Transatlantic Reprint ...
This “expansion” of the print culture was also occurring a few centuries ago in Antebellum America. ...
Theories of Reading from Nineteenth-Century American Fiction proceeds from the claim that when we re...
Review of: Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution. ...
Times have changed. In the mid 1980s, when I wrote my biography of John Almon, a study of the reflex...
My dissertation examines popular authorship in the antebellum United States. Following the print exp...
Using letters written and diaries kept by 931 New Englanders living during the antebellum era, Ronal...
Knowledge through Reading The Intellectual Lives of Antebellum New Englanders Reading books and j...
In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print c...
In an 1830s review of Lydia Maria Child\u27s Good Wives published in Sarah Hale\u27s Ladies\u27 Maga...
Reviews of the following books: Ordinary People and Everyday Life edited by James B. Gardner and Ge...
Both these volumes demonstrate the exciting potential, as well as the pitfalls, of applying history-...
James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public an...
A literary look at Civil War-Era Society James L Machor sets himself an impressive task: to read con...
An ascendant scholarly narrative has understood the Enlightenment and Protestant call to universal b...
Scenes of Reading: Forgotten Antebellum Readers, Self-Representation, and the Transatlantic Reprint ...
This “expansion” of the print culture was also occurring a few centuries ago in Antebellum America. ...
Theories of Reading from Nineteenth-Century American Fiction proceeds from the claim that when we re...
Review of: Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution. ...
Times have changed. In the mid 1980s, when I wrote my biography of John Almon, a study of the reflex...
My dissertation examines popular authorship in the antebellum United States. Following the print exp...