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Title Reading books : essays on the material text and literature in America / edited by Michele Moylan and Lane Stiles ; foreword by Michael Winship.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [1996]
©1996

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  810.9 R287R    Check Shelf
Description x, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Studies in print culture and the history of the book
Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Dante in America: the first hundred years / Kathleen Verduin -- The material Melville: shaping readers' horizons / Michael Kearns -- Judging literary books by their covers: house styles, Ticknor and Fields, and literary promotion / Jeffrey D. Groves -- Literature in newsprint: antebellum family newspapers and the uses of reading / Amy M. Thomas -- Manufacturing intellectual equipment: the Tauchnitz edition of The Marble faun / Susan S. Williams -- Finding his mark: Twain's The Innocents abroad as a subscription book / Nancy Cook -- Defining the national pantheon: the making of Houghton Mifflin's Biographical series, 1880-1900 / Scott E. Casper -- Materiality as performance: the forming of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona / Michele Moylan -- Packaging literature for the high schools: from Riverside literature series to Literature and life / Lane Stiles.
Subject American literature -- Criticism, Textual.
Literature publishing -- United States -- History.
Books -- United States -- Format -- History -- 19th century.
Books -- United States -- Format -- History -- 20th century.
Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Transmission of texts -- United States.
Literary form.
Added Author Moylan, Michele, 1963-
Stiles, Lane, 1952-
ISBN 1558490620 alkaline paper
1558490639 paperback alkaline paper
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