| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Reading books/ edited by Michele Moylan and Lane Stiles ; foreword by Michael Winship. |
| Reminder of title: |
essays on the material text and literature in America / |
| other author: |
Moylan, Michele, |
| Published: |
Amherst :University of Massachusetts Press, : c1996., |
| Description: |
x, 288 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| Series: |
Studies in print culture and the history of the book |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Dante in America: the first hundred years / Kathleen Verduin -- The material Melville: shaping readers' horizons / Michael Kearns -- Judging literary books by their covers: house styles, Ticknor and Fields, and literary promotion/ Jeffrey D. Groves -- Literature in newsprint: antebellum family newspapers and the uses of reading / Amy M. Thomas -- Manufacturing intellectual equipment: the Tauchnitz edition of The Marble faun/ Susan S. Williams -- Finding his mark: Twain's The Innocents abroad as a subscription book / Nancy Cook -- Defining the national pantheon: the making of Houghton Mifflin's Biographical series, 1880-1900/ Scott E. Casper -- Materiality as performance: the forming of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona / Michele Moylan -- Packaging literature for the high schools: from Riverside literature series to Literature and life / Lane Stiles. |
| Subject: |
American literature - Criticism, Textual. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=13894An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0585142149 (electronic bk.) |