Novels, Readers, and Reviewers - Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America

Nina Baym is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Feminism and American Literary History: Essays, Women Writers of the American West, 1833�27, and American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790�60.

Summary

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...

Product details

• Authors: Nina Baym
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781501727764
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-2776-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, Amerikanisches Englisch