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At the Bookstore: Literary and Cultural Experience in Antebellum New York City.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	At the Bookstore: Literary and Cultural Experience in Antebellum New York City./
Author:	Highland, Kristen Doyle.
Description:	204 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-08A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10075589
ISBN:	9781339582214

At the Bookstore: Literary and Cultural Experience in Antebellum New York City.
Highland, Kristen Doyle.

At the Bookstore: Literary and Cultural Experience in Antebellum New York City. - 204 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2015.

Emerging in the antebellum years in hundreds of New York City storefronts, the dedicated retail bookstore served as more than a supply outlet connecting publishers and readers. In the de facto literary capital of the nation at a time when more people were buying books than ever before, the bookstore became a literary institution, developing spaces for and shaping forms of engagement between book and individual. "At the Bookstore" argues that the antebellum bookstore is a critical material site for tracing the commercial and social economies that underpin literary practice and the emergence of abstract ideological concepts like Literature and Culture. Bookstores, in short, sold more than books. This dissertation traces the rise of the retail bookstore in three chapters, each examining a different perspective in the cultural geography of retailing books, from mapping the bookstore in the urban commercial landscape to analyzing the built environment of specific stores to exploring its controversial new forms. Whereas much scholarship in literary studies and book history frames literary history as the study of texts, authors, and readers, I argue that literary history must critically engage with the places and spaces in which Americans encountered books. By focusing on the emergence of a specific institution in one geographic location, I apply the methods of cultural geography to the materials of literary history, exploring the material foundations of cultural formation. "At the Bookstore" therefore re-envisions literary culture as a localized material experience shaped by the bookstore's physical layout, social space, and marketing materials.

ISBN: 9781339582214Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

At the Bookstore: Literary and Cultural Experience in Antebellum New York City.
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