The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
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Total Pages | : 1814 |
Release | : 1910 |
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Total Pages | : 1814 |
Release | : 1910 |
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Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Literature |
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Total Pages | : 1014 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Nancy Glazener |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2015-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199390142 |
In the eighteenth century, literature meant learned writings; by the twentieth century, literature had come to be identified with imaginative, aesthetically significant works, and academic literary studies had developed special protocols for interpreting and valuing literary texts. Literature in the Making examines what happened in between: how literature came to be more precisely specified and valued; how it was organized into genres, canons, and national traditions; and how it became the basis for departments of modern languages and literatures in research universities. Modern literature, the version of literature familiar today, was an international invention, but it was forged when literary cultures, traditions, and publishing industries were mainly organized nationally. Literature in the Making examines modern literature's coalescence and institutionalization in the United States, considered as an instructive instance of a phenomenon that was going global. Since modern literature initially offered a way to formulate the value of legacy texts by authors such as Homer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare, however, the development of literature and literary culture in the U.S. was fundamentally transnational. Literature in the Making argues that Shakespeare studies, one of the richest tracts of nineteenth-century U.S. literary culture, was a key domain in which literature came to be valued both for fuelling modern projects and for safeguarding values and practices that modernity put at risk-a foundational paradox that continues to shape literary studies and literary culture. Bringing together the histories of literature's competing conceptualizations, its print infrastructure, its changing status in higher education, and its life in public culture during the long nineteenth century, Literature in the Making offers a robust account of how and why literature mattered then and matters now. By highlighting the lively collaboration between academics and non-academics that prevailed before the ascendancy of the research university starkly divided experts from amateurs, Literature in the Making also opens new possibilities for envisioning how academics might partner with the reading public.
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Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1887 |
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Author | : Library of Congress |
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Total Pages | : 1278 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Subject headings, Library of Congress |
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Author | : Edwin Greenlaw |
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Total Pages | : 810 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : William Thomas Brande |
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Total Pages | : 968 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Art |
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Total Pages | : 1068 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Bibliography |
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Author | : Meredith L. McGill |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2013-10-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0812209745 |
The antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. And yet, as Meredith L. McGill argues, a mass market for books in this period was built and sustained through what we would call rampant literary piracy: a national literature developed not despite but because of the systematic copying of foreign works. Restoring a political dimension to accounts of the economic grounds of antebellum literature, McGill unfolds the legal arguments and political struggles that produced an American "culture of reprinting" and held it in place for two crucial decades. In this culture of reprinting, the circulation of print outstripped authorial and editorial control. McGill examines the workings of literary culture within this market, shifting her gaze from first and authorized editions to reprints and piracies, from the form of the book to the intersection of book and periodical publishing, and from a national literature to an internally divided and transatlantic literary marketplace. Through readings of the work of Dickens, Poe, and Hawthorne, McGill seeks both to analyze how changes in the conditions of publication influenced literary form and to measure what was lost as literary markets became centralized and literary culture became stratified in the early 1850s. American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 delineates a distinctive literary culture that was regional in articulation and transnational in scope, while questioning the grounds of the startlingly recent but nonetheless powerful equation of the national interest with the extension of authors' rights.