Serial Forms

Serial Forms

Author: Clare Pettitt

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0198830424

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Studies 'seriality' in nineteenth-century literary and popular print culture, focusing on literacy and the material history of reading in the period from 1815 to 1848.


The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870

The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870

Author: William Charvat

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780231070775

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This study focuses on the complex relations between author, publisher and contemporary reading public in 19th-century America; in particular, the emergence of Irving and Cooper as America's first successful literary entrepreneurs, how Poe's and Melville's successes and failures affected their writing, the popularization of poetry in the 1830s and 1840s, the role of the literary magazine in the 1840s and 1850s, and the beginnings of book promotion. It pays particular attention to the way social and economic forces helped to shape literary works.


Native Son

Native Son

Author: Richard A. Wright

Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Published: 1998-09-01

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 9780060929800

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Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness experienced by people in inner cities across the country and of what it means to be black in America.


Early Georgia Magazines

Early Georgia Magazines

Author: Bertram Holland Flanders

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2010-05-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0820335363

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First published in 1944, this is a detailed survey of twenty-four distinguished periodicals published in antebellum Georgia. Flanders shows that literary activity was generally confined to middle Georgia and often concentrated on themes of religion and morality, early American life, and European adventures. An extensive bibliography and three appendices give a comprehensive list of magazines published during the time, including dates, places of publication, and names of editors and publishers. More than nine hundred footnotes further elaborate on the analysis of backgrounds, local historical events, and information on contributors.


Philosophical Fragments

Philosophical Fragments

Author: Friedrich von Schlegel

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1452902402

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Philosophical Fragments was first published in 1991. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. At a time when the function of criticism is again coming under close skeptical scrutiny, Schlegel's unorthodox, highly original mind, as revealed in these foundational "fragments," provides the critical framework for reflecting on contemporary experimental texts.