{"product_id":"reading-fiction-in-antebellum-america-9780801898747","title":"Reading Fiction in Antebellum America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors' conceptions of their own readership.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An important book that fills significant gaps in literary and historical scholarship on the reading, reception, publishing, and interpretation of antebellum fiction.\" (Barbara Hochman, Ben Gurion University)\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Reading Reading Historically\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Historical Hermeneutics, Reception Theory, and the Social Conditions of Reading in Antebellum America\u003cbr\u003e2. Interpretive Strategies and Informed Reading in the Antebellum Public Sphere\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Contextual Receptions, Reading Experiences, and Patterns of Response: Four Case Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. \"These Days of Double Dealing\": Informed Response, Reader Appropriation, and the Tales of Poe\u003cbr\u003e4. Multiple Audiences and Melville's Fiction: Receptions, Recoveries, and Regressions\u003cbr\u003e5. Response as (Re)Construction: The Reception of Catharine Sedgwick's Novels\u003cbr\u003e6. Mercurial Readings: The Making and Unmaking of Caroline Chesebro'\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: American Literary History and the Historical Study of Interpretive Practices\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405211803991,"sku":"9780801898747","price":66.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801898747.jpg?v=1730489132","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-fiction-in-antebellum-america-9780801898747","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}