Readers in History
Subtitle: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780801844379
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; History and criticism; Authors and readers; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; American literature; 19th century; Books and reading; History; Theory, etc; United States
First sentence: Writing about the history of literary studies, Terry Eagleton in 1983 offered a characterization of the turns in that history by pointing out that if a focus on the author and the autonomous text had dominated earlier periods, "a marked shift of attention to the reader" has occurred "over recent years."