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Reading Books : Essays On the Material Text and Literature in America Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
author
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Moylan, Michele
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
:
1558490639
print isbn13
:
9781558490635
ebook isbn13
:
9780585142142
language
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English
subject
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, Book
publication date
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1996
lcc
:
PS25.R38 1996eb
ddc
:
810.9
subject
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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, Book
Page i
Reading Books
Page ii
Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
Editorial Advisory Board
ROGER CHARTIER
WILLIAM GILMORE-LEHNE
ROBERT A. GROSS
JOAN SHELLEY RUBIN
MICHAEL WINSHIP
Page iii
Reading Books
Essays on the Material Text and Literature in America
Edited by Michele Moylan and Lane Stiles
Foreword by Michael Winship
University of Massachusetts Press Amherst
Page iv
Copyright 1996 by The University of Massachusetts Press Foreword 1996 by Michael Winship All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 96-8322 ISBN 1-55849-062-0 (cloth); 063-9 (pbk.) Designed by Melinda Nan OK Lee Set in Adobe Caslon Printed and bound by Braun-Brumfield, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Reading books: essays on the material text and literature in America / edited by Michele Moylan and Lane Stiles; foreword by Michael Winship. p. cm. (Studies in print culture and the history of the book) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 1-55849-062-0 (alk. paper). ISBN 1-55849-063-9 (pbk.: alk. paper) I. American literatureCriticism, Textual. 2. LiteraturePublishingUnited StatesHistory. 3. BooksUnited StatesFormatHistory19th century. 4. BooksUnited StatesFormatHistory20th century. 5. Books and reading United StatesHistory19th century. 6. Books and readingUnited States History20th century. 7. Transmission of texts. 8. Literary form. I. Moylan, Michele, 1963 . II. Stiles, Lane, 1952 . III. Series. PS25.R38 1996 810.9dc2096-8322 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available. This book is published with the support and cooperation of the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Page v
Contents
Foreword
Michael Winship
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
Michele Moylan and 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
Page vi
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
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