| Description |
1 online resource (x, 338 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Critic in the Age of Industrial Print -- Cutting Corners with Emerson: Quarterly Reviews and Intellectual Culture -- Anthology Wars: Rufus Griswold and the Compilation as Literary History -- Reviewers Reviewed: Poe, Monthly Magazines, and the Critical Vocation -- Black, White, and Read All Over: Margaret Fuller and the Newspaper Book Review -- Slavery Reviewed: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Critical Reprinting -- Coda: From the Steam Press to Amazon.com: Critical Forms for the Twenty-First Century |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Criticism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
|
|
Criticism. |
|
United States. |
|
History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
|
|
American literature. |
|
Book industries and trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
|
|
Book industries and trade. |
|
Publishers and publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
|
|
Publishers and publishing. |
|
Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
|
|
Books and reading. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
|
History.
|
| Added Title |
Antebellum print culture and the rise of the critic |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Gordon, Adam, 1981- Prophets, publicists, and parasites. Amherst : University of Masschusetts Press, 2020 9781625344526 (DLC) 2019020027 (OCoLC)1101027168 |
| ISBN |
9781613766965 (electronic book) |
|
1613766963 (electronic book) |
|
9781625344526 |
|
162534452X |
|
9781625344533 |
|
1625344538 |
|
