Reading fiction in antebellum America : informed response and reception histories, 1820-1865 /

James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War. Machor takes four antebellum authors--Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Catharine Sedgwick, and Caroline Chesebro'--and analyzes how t...

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Main Author: Machor, James L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Series:Project Muse literature collection.
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