Nancy Glazener

Literature in the Making

A History of U.S. Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using the U.S. as a case study, Literature in the Making examines the public life of literature between the late eighteenth century and the early twentieth century, bringing together the development of literature's intellectual infrastructure, literature's operation in print culture, literature's changing status in higher education, and the surprisingly rich and interesting history of public literary culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780190940058
• ISBN-10: 0190940050
• Artikelnr.: 56748603

Autorenporträt

Nancy Glazener is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910 (Duke University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Organizing Literature
Chapter 2. Literature, Civil Society, and the State
Chapter 3. Studying Literature
Chapter 4. Lost Episodes from Public Literary Culture
Chapter 5. Literary Species and Academic Toolkits
Chapter 6. Disciplinarity and Beyond