"A major study of Jacksonian print culture that should be required reading."--American Studies "McGill's book will have a major impact on history of the book scholarship as well as upon American literary and cultural studies more generally."--Janice Radway "In meticulously researched and richly detailed readings, McGill . . . finds an exuberant reprint culture that is both regional and transatlantic."--American Literature 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...
"A major study of Jacksonian print culture that should be required reading."--American Studies "McGill's book will have a major impact on histo...
The eleven essays in this book focus on poetic depictions of exile, slavery, immigration, and citizenship and explore the often asymmetrical traffic between British and American poetic cultures.
The eleven essays in this book focus on poetic depictions of exile, slavery, immigration, and citizenship and explore the often asymmetrical traffic b...
