{"product_id":"readers-in-history-nineteenthcentury-american-literature-and-the-contexts-of-response-9780801844379","title":"Readers in History NineteenthCentury American","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited by the author of \"Pastoral Cities: Urban Ideals and the Symbolic Landscape of America\", these essays emphasize the importance of historical inquiry for exploring the dynamics of audience engagement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents a number of important Americanist scholars doing substantial and thought-provoking work. These scholars rethink responses to canonical works and come to important new undertsandings of women's and African American writing. -- John Evelev Nineteenth-Century Prose Presents a number of important Americanist scholars doing substantial and thought-provoking work. These scholars rethink responses to canonical works and come to important new undertsandings of women's and African American writing... Readers in History suggests that new attention to the social dynamics of reading will generate important new understandings of nineteenth-century American literature. -- John Evelev Nineteenth-Century Pros\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Readers\/Texts\/Contexts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Theory and the Historicizing of Reading Practices\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Misreading as a Historical Act: Cultural Rhetoric, Bible Politics, and Fuller's 1845 Review of Douglass's \u003ci\u003eNarrative\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Sweet Away: Henry James, Margaret Fuller, and \"The Last of the Valerii\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Historical Hermeneutics and Antebellum Fiction: Gender, Response Theory, and Interpretive Contexts\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Feminism, New Historicism, and the Reader\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Reading Communities and the Contexts of Inscribed Audience\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Cooper's Allegories of Reading and \"the Wreck of the Past\"\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. The Address of \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Letter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Poetry Readers and Reading in the 1890s: Emily Dickinson's First Reception \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Probable Readers, Possible Stories: The Limits of Nineteenth-Century Black Narrative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Reading and Writing Against the Grain: Race, Gender, and Response\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e and Antebellum Black Response \u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. Reading Before Marx: Margaret Fuller and the \u003ci\u003eNew-York Daily Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Responding to the Text(s): Women Readers and the Quest for Higher Education\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49527609426263,"sku":"9780801844379","price":23.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/readers-in-history-nineteenthcentury-american-literature-and-the-contexts-of-response-9780801844379","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}