Machor, James L. <br/><br/>
Reading Fiction in Antebellum America  Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820-1865 / 
James L. Machor. 
 - 1 online resource (xiv, 403 p.) 
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-391) and index. 
<br/><br/>pt. 1. Reading reading historically. Historical hermeneutics, reception theory, and the social conditions of reading in antebellum America ; Interpretive strategies and informed reading in the antebellum public sphere -- pt. 2. Contextual receptions, reading experiences, and patterns of response: four case studies. "These days of double dealing": informed response, reader appropriation, and the tales of Poe ; Multiple audiences and Melville's fiction: receptions, recoveries, and regressions ; Response as (re)construction: the reception of Catharine Sedgwick's novels ; Mercurial readings: the making and unmaking of Caroline Chesebro'-- Conclusion: American literary history and the historical study of interpretive practices. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780801899331 0801899338 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Books and reading--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Authors and readers--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Reader-response criticism--United States.<br/>American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS377  / .M33 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>813/.309