Future of the Book - Images of Reading in the American Utopian Novel

A short study of modern utopian American literature that shows how books were produced, distributed, and consumed in the US during the late nineteenth century, and the ways in which utopian novels written at this time reflected these processes in their imagined futures.

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction


• 1: The Residential Library


• 2: The Public Library


• 3: The Idea of Authorship


• 4: The Newspaper


• 5: The Printed Page and the Written Word


• Conclusion

About the author

Kevin J. Hayes, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma, now lives and writes in Toledo, Ohio. He is the author of numerous books on history, literature, and culture, including A Journey through American Literature and George Washington, A Life in Books, for which he received the George Washington Prize.

Summary

A short study of modern utopian American literature that shows how books were produced, distributed, and consumed in the US during the late nineteenth century, and the ways in which utopian novels written at this time reflected these processes in their imagined futures.

Additional text

...excellent book.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin J. Hayes, Kevin J. (Emeritus Professor of English Hayes, Hayes Kevin J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780192856883
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285688-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000