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Author Davidson, Cathy N., 1949-

Title Revolution and the word : the rise of the novel in America / Cathy N. Davidson.

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  813.009 D281r 2004    ---  Available
Edition Expanded ed.
Description xv, 458 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-442) and index.
Contents Introduction : toward a history of texts -- The book in the new republic -- Ideology and genre -- Literacy, education, and the reader -- Commodity and communication : the first American novel -- Privileging the Feme covert : the sociology of sentimental fiction -- The Picaresque and the margins of political discourse -- Early American gothic : the limits of individualism -- Afterword : texts as histories.
Subject American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Social history in literature.
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Literature and the revolution.
American fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
Literature and society.
United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865.
ISBN 0195148231 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0195177711 (acid-free paper)
9780195177718 (acid-free paper)
9780195148237 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 264522125
YDXCP 2132228
NZ1 9096214

 
    
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