Contact us on (02) 8445 2300
For all customer service and order enquiries

Woodslane Online Catalogues

9780252080067 Add to Cart Academic Inspection Copy

Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture

Description
Reviews
Google
Preview
Countering assumptions about early American print culture and challenging our scholarly fixation on the novel, Jared Gardner reimagines the early American magazine as a rich literary culture that operated as a model for nation-building by celebrating editorship over authorship and serving as a virtual salon in which citizens were invited to share their different perspectives. The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture reexamines early magazines and their reach to show how magazine culture was multivocal and presented a porous distinction between author and reader, as opposed to novel culture, which imposed a one-sided authorial voice and restricted the agency of the reader.
''Smoothly written and well researched. . . . an important contribution to the University of Illinois Press's valuable History of Communication series.''--''The Journal of American History'' ''The book offers much food for thought in depicting an 18th-century version of an inclusive public sphere, where semi-anonymous voices engaged in an ongoing virtual conversation without seeking recognition or profits.''-''-''Journal of Magazine & New Media Research''''
Google Preview content