Authorship and Audience : Literary Performance in the American Renaissance.

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Author / Creator:	Railton, Stephen.
Imprint:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (252 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Princeton Legacy Library Princeton legacy library.
Subject:	American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Authors and readers -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Reader-response criticism -- United States. Authorship -- History -- 19th century. American prose literature. Authors and readers. Authorship. Reader-response criticism. United States. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11275513

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ISBN:	9781400862276 1400862272 0691631107 9780691631103
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Summary:	Stephen Railton's study of the American Renaissance proposes a fresh way of conceiving the writer as a performing artist and the text as an enactment of the drama of its own performance. Railton focuses on how major prose works of the period are preoccupied with their readers--how they seek to negotiate the conflicted space between the authors, who brought to the act of publication their own anxieties of ambition and identity, and the contemporary American reading public, which, as a growing mass audience in a democracy, had acquired an unprecedented authority over the terms of literary per.
Other form:	Print version: Railton, Stephen. Authorship and Audience : Literary Performance in the American Renaissance. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014

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