Novels, Readers, and Reviewers

ISBN-13: 9781501727764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str.

Nina Baym

Opis

This book describes and characterizes responses of American readers to fiction in the generation before the Civil War. It is based on close examination of the reviews of all novels-both American and European-that appeared in major American periodicals during the years 1840-1860, a period in which magazines, novels, and novel reviews all...