Author: Michael J. Everton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199751781
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An engaging study of authorship, ethics, and book publishing in 18th- and 19th-century America, The Grand Chorus of Complaint considers the uneasy relationship between art and commerce with readings of correspondence, newspaper articles, and works by Thomas Paine, Herman Melville, and Fanny Fern.
The Grand Chorus of Complaint
Author: Michael J. Everton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199751781
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An engaging study of authorship, ethics, and book publishing in 18th- and 19th-century America, The Grand Chorus of Complaint considers the uneasy relationship between art and commerce with readings of correspondence, newspaper articles, and works by Thomas Paine, Herman Melville, and Fanny Fern.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199751781
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An engaging study of authorship, ethics, and book publishing in 18th- and 19th-century America, The Grand Chorus of Complaint considers the uneasy relationship between art and commerce with readings of correspondence, newspaper articles, and works by Thomas Paine, Herman Melville, and Fanny Fern.
Walt Whitman in Context
Author: Joanna Levin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108314473
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Walt Whitman is a poet of contexts. His poetic practice was one of observing, absorbing, and then reflecting the world around him. Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural, and political - through which to engage Whitman's life and work. Written by distinguished scholars of Whitman and nineteenth-century American literature and culture, this collection synthesizes scholarly and historical sources and brings together new readings and original research.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108314473
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Walt Whitman is a poet of contexts. His poetic practice was one of observing, absorbing, and then reflecting the world around him. Walt Whitman in Context provides brief, provocative explorations of thirty-eight different contexts - geographic, literary, cultural, and political - through which to engage Whitman's life and work. Written by distinguished scholars of Whitman and nineteenth-century American literature and culture, this collection synthesizes scholarly and historical sources and brings together new readings and original research.
Herman Melville
Author: Katie McGettigan
Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press
ISBN: 1512601381
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
In this imaginative book, Katie McGettigan argues that Melville's novels and poetry demonstrate a sustained engagement with the physical, social, and economic materiality of industrial and commercial forms of print. Further, she shows that this "aesthetics of the material text," central both to Melville's stylistic signature and to his innovations in form, allows Melville to explore the production of selfhood, test the limits of narrative authenticity, and question the nature of artistic originality. Combining archival research in print and publishing history with close reading, McGettigan situates Melville's works alongside advertising materials, magazine articles, trade manuals, and British and American commentary on the literary industry to demonstrate how Melville's literary practice relies on and aestheticizes the specific conditions of literary production in which he worked. For Melville, the book is a physical object produced by particular technological processes, as well as an entity that manifests social and economic values. His characters carry books, write on them, and even sleep on them; they also imagine, observe, and participate in the buying and selling of books. Melville employs the book's print, paper, and binding - and its market circulations - to construct literary figures, to shape textual form, and to create irony and ambiguity. Exploring the printed book in Melville's writings brings neglected sections of his poetry and prose to the fore and invites new readings of familiar passages and images. These readings encourage a reassessment of Melville's career as shaped by his creative engagements with print, rather than his failures in the literary marketplace. McGettigan demonstrates that a sustained and deliberate imaginative dialogue with the material text is at the core of Melville's expressive practice and that, for Melville, the printed book served as a site for imagining the problems and possibilities of modernity.
Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press
ISBN: 1512601381
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
In this imaginative book, Katie McGettigan argues that Melville's novels and poetry demonstrate a sustained engagement with the physical, social, and economic materiality of industrial and commercial forms of print. Further, she shows that this "aesthetics of the material text," central both to Melville's stylistic signature and to his innovations in form, allows Melville to explore the production of selfhood, test the limits of narrative authenticity, and question the nature of artistic originality. Combining archival research in print and publishing history with close reading, McGettigan situates Melville's works alongside advertising materials, magazine articles, trade manuals, and British and American commentary on the literary industry to demonstrate how Melville's literary practice relies on and aestheticizes the specific conditions of literary production in which he worked. For Melville, the book is a physical object produced by particular technological processes, as well as an entity that manifests social and economic values. His characters carry books, write on them, and even sleep on them; they also imagine, observe, and participate in the buying and selling of books. Melville employs the book's print, paper, and binding - and its market circulations - to construct literary figures, to shape textual form, and to create irony and ambiguity. Exploring the printed book in Melville's writings brings neglected sections of his poetry and prose to the fore and invites new readings of familiar passages and images. These readings encourage a reassessment of Melville's career as shaped by his creative engagements with print, rather than his failures in the literary marketplace. McGettigan demonstrates that a sustained and deliberate imaginative dialogue with the material text is at the core of Melville's expressive practice and that, for Melville, the printed book served as a site for imagining the problems and possibilities of modernity.
The Public School Journal
Author:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Recollections of a Busy Life: including reminiscences of American politics and politicians, from the opening of the Missouri contest to the downfall of slavery; to which are added Miscellanies ... Also, a discussion with Robert Dale Owen of the law of divorce. [With illustrations.]
Author: Horace GREELEY
Publisher:
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Without Copyrights
Author: Robert Spoo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190469161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
"Tells the story of how the clashes between authors, publishers, and literary "pirates" influenced both American copyright law and literature itself."--Dust jacket flap
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190469161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
"Tells the story of how the clashes between authors, publishers, and literary "pirates" influenced both American copyright law and literature itself."--Dust jacket flap
The Grand Chorus of Complaint
Author: Michael J. Everton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199924252
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An engaging study of authorship, ethics, and book publishing in 18th- and 19th-century America, The Grand Chorus of Complaint considers the uneasy relationship between art and commerce with readings of correspondence, newspaper articles, and works by Thomas Paine, Herman Melville, and Fanny Fern.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199924252
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
An engaging study of authorship, ethics, and book publishing in 18th- and 19th-century America, The Grand Chorus of Complaint considers the uneasy relationship between art and commerce with readings of correspondence, newspaper articles, and works by Thomas Paine, Herman Melville, and Fanny Fern.
Punch
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Punch, Or, The London Charivari
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Punch
Author: Mark Lemon
Publisher:
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Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description