Reading books : essays on the material text and literature in America / edited by Michele Moylan and Lane Stiles ; foreword by Michael Winship
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| Subjects: | American literature--Criticism, Textual Literature publishing--United States--History Books--United States--Format--History--19th century Books--United States--Format--History--20th century Books and reading--United States--History--19th century Books and reading--United States--History--20th century Transmission of texts Literary form |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1996 |
| Series: | Studies in print culture and the history of the book |
| LC Classification: | P, PS |
| Table of Contents: | Foreword / Michael Winship Acknowledgments Introduction / Michele Moylan, Lane Stiles 1 Dante in America: The First Hundred Years / Kathleen Verduin 16 The Material Melville: Shaping Readers' Horizons / Michael Kearns 52 Judging Literary Books by Their Covers: House Styles, Ticknor and Fields, and Literary Promotion / Jeffrey D. Groves 75 Literature in Newsprint: Antebellum Family Newspapers and the Uses of Reading / Amy M. Thomas 101 Manufacturing Intellectual Equipment: The Tauchnitz Edition of The Marble Faun / Susan S. Williams 117 Finding His Mark: Twain's The Innocents Abroad as a Subscription Book / Nancy Cook 151 Defining the National Pantheon: The Making of Houghton Mifflin's Biographical Series, 1880-1900 / Scott E. Casper 179 Materiality as Performance: The Forming of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona / Michel Moylan 223 Packaging Literature for the High Schools: From the Riverside Literature Series to Literature and Life / Lane Stiles 248 Contributors 277 Index 279 |
| Additional Authors: | Moylan, Michele, 1963- Stiles, Lane, 1952- |
| Notes: | LCCN: 96008322 ISBN: 1558490620 (alk. paper) ISBN: 1558490639 (pbk. : alk. paper) Includes bibliographical references and index Contents: Dante in America: the first hundred years / Kathleen Verduin -- The material Melville: shaping readers' horizons / Michael Kearns -- Judging literary books by their covers: house styles, Ticknor and Fields, and literary promotion / Jeffrey D. Groves -- Literature in newsprint: antebellum family newspapers and the uses of reading / Amy M. Thomas -- Manufacturing intellectual equipment: the Tauchnitz edition of The Marble faun / Susan S. Williams -- Finding his mark: Twain's The Innocents abroad as a subscription book / Nancy Cook -- Defining the national pantheon: the making of Houghton Mifflin's Biographical series, 1880-1900 / Scott E. Casper -- Materiality as performance: the forming of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona / Michele Moylan -- Packaging literature for the high schools: from Riverside literature series to Literature and life / Lane Stiles |
| Physical Description: | x, 288 p. : ill. ; 25 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 34618073 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 1558490620 1558490639 |