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Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites: Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise of the Critic
University of Massachusetts Press, 2020 eISBN: 978-1-61376-697-2 | Paper: 978-1-62534-453-3 | Cloth: 978-1-62534-452-6 Library of Congress Classification PS74.G67 2020 Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9003
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Print culture expanded significantly in the nineteenth century due to new print technologies and more efficient distribution methods, providing literary critics, who were alternately celebrated and reviled, with an ever-increasing number of venues to publish their work. Adam Gordon embraces the multiplicity of critique in the period from 1830 to 1860 by exploring the critical forms that emerged. Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites is organized around these sometimes chaotic and often generative forms and their most famous practitioners: Edgar Allan Poe and the magazine review; Ralph Waldo Emerson and the quarterly essay; Rufus Wilmot Griswold and the literary anthology; Margaret Fuller and the newspaper book review; and Frederick Douglass's editorial repurposing of criticism from other sources. Revealing the many and frequently competing uses of criticism beyond evaluation and aesthetics, this insightful study offers a new vision of antebellum criticism, a new model of critical history, and a powerful argument for the centrality of literary criticism to modern life. See other books on: Book industries and trade | Books & Reading | Books and reading | Prophets | Publishers and publishing See other titles from University of Massachusetts Press |
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Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites: Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise of the Critic
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
University of Massachusetts Press, 2020
eISBN: 978-1-61376-697-2
Paper: 978-1-62534-453-3
Cloth: 978-1-62534-452-6
eISBN: 978-1-61376-697-2
Paper: 978-1-62534-453-3
Cloth: 978-1-62534-452-6
Print culture expanded significantly in the nineteenth century due to new print technologies and more efficient distribution methods, providing literary critics, who were alternately celebrated and reviled, with an ever-increasing number of venues to publish their work. Adam Gordon embraces the multiplicity of critique in the period from 1830 to 1860 by exploring the critical forms that emerged. Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites is organized around these sometimes chaotic and often generative forms and their most famous practitioners: Edgar Allan Poe and the magazine review; Ralph Waldo Emerson and the quarterly essay; Rufus Wilmot Griswold and the literary anthology; Margaret Fuller and the newspaper book review; and Frederick Douglass's editorial repurposing of criticism from other sources. Revealing the many and frequently competing uses of criticism beyond evaluation and aesthetics, this insightful study offers a new vision of antebellum criticism, a new model of critical history, and a powerful argument for the centrality of literary criticism to modern life.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
