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nineteenth century literature american reading history reader response reception theory literary criticism audience engagement historical analysis book culture reading practices interpretive communities cultural criticism feminist criticism
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- ISBN 9780801844379
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jan 1993
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"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 Prose'
James L. Machor is a professor of English at Kansas State University, editor of Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response, also published by Johns Hopkins, and coeditor of Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies and New Directions in American Reception Study.
