Title Authorship and Audience : Literary Performance in the American Renaissance.

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Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.

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Description	1 online resource (252 pages).
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Series	Princeton Legacy Library
	Princeton legacy library.
Contents	Cover; Acknowledgments; I. The Anxiety of Performance.
Summary	Stephen Railton's study of the American Renaissance proposes a fresh way of conceiving the writer as a performing artist and the text as an enactment of the drama of its own performance. Railton focuses on how major prose works of the period are preoccupied with their readers--how they seek to negotiate the conflicted space between the authors, who brought to the act of publication their own anxieties of ambition and identity, and the contemporary American reading public, which, as a growing mass audience in a democracy, had acquired an unprecedented authority over the terms of literary per.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	American prose literature.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Authors and readers -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Authors and readers.
	United States.
	History.
	Reader-response criticism -- United States.
	Reader-response criticism.
	Authorship -- History -- 19th century.
	Authorship.
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Railton, Stephen. Authorship and Audience : Literary Performance in the American Renaissance. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014
ISBN	9781400862276 (electronic book)
	1400862272 (electronic book)

Title Authorship and Audience : Literary Performance in the American Renaissance.

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