Reading Fiction in Antebellum America Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820-1865
James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War. Machor takes four antebellum authors-Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Catharine Sedgwick, and Caroline Chesebro'-and analyzes how the...
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Main Author: | Machor, James L. (auth) |
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Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2011
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