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Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America

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This book describes and characterizes responses of American readers to fiction in the generation before the Civil War. It is based on close examination of the reviews of all novels--both American and European--that appeared in major American periodicals during the years 1840-1860, a period in which magazines, novels, and novel reviews all...

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Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America 1987, Cornell University Press, Ithaca

ISBN-13: 9780801494666

2nd Revised edition

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