Prophets, publicists, and parasites : antebellum print culture and the rise of the critic / Adam Gordon.
"Print culture expanded significantly in the nineteenth century due to new print technologies and more efficient distribution methods, providing literary critics, who were alternately celebrated and reviled, with an ever-increasing number of venues to publish their work. Adam Gordon embraces th...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Amherst and Boston :
University of Masschusetts Press,
[2020]
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "Print culture expanded significantly in the nineteenth century due to new print technologies and more efficient distribution methods, providing literary critics, who were alternately celebrated and reviled, with an ever-increasing number of venues to publish their work. Adam Gordon embraces the multiplicity of critique in the period from 1830 to 1860 by exploring the critical forms that emerged. Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites is organized around these sometimes chaotic and often generative forms and their most famous practitioners: Edgar Allan Poe and the magazine review; Ralph Waldo Emerson and the quarterly essay; Rufus Wilmot Griswold and the literary anthology; Margaret Fuller and the newspaper book review; and Frederick Douglass's editorial repurposing of criticism from other sources. Revealing the many and frequently competing uses of criticism beyond evaluation and aesthetics, this insightful study offers a new vision of antebellum criticism, a new model of critical history, and a powerful argument for the centrality of literary criticism to modern life"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 338 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1613766963 9781613766965 |