Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• GORDON, ADAM

Titel

The Rise of the Print Culture Canon

Ist Teil von

• Early American Literature, 2014-03, Vol.49 (2), p.533-551

Ort / Verlag

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• What this new wave of studies reflects is a determination to read print culture in nuanced, frequently counterintuitive ways that destabilize certain ossified beliefs within American literary studies: specifically, the novel as the privileged genre of the early Republic, political economy as the prevailing currency of print culture methodologies, and the romantic author as a countercultural reaction to bourgeois commerce. [...]like Everton's, Tomc's study also presents readers with a series of metadiscursive literary texts-a few known, but far more of them obscure- that dramatize the conditions of early American authorship, from Dennie's idler essays to 1850s magazine accounts of literary domesticity.