Literature in the Making
Subtitle: A History of U.S. Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated; Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780199390137
Subjects: American literature, history and criticism, 19th century; Literature and society; Literary movements
Description: Using the US as a case study, this study examines the public life of literature between the late 18th and the early 20th centuries, bringing together the development of literature's intellectual infrastructure, its operation in print culture, its changing status in higher education, and the surprisingly rich and interesting history of public literary culture.