Literature in the making [electronic resource] : a history of U.S. literary culture in the long nineteenth century / Nancy Glazener.
Glazener, Nancy, author.
2015
PS201 .G56 2015eb
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Title Literature in the making [electronic resource] : a history of U.S. literary culture in the long nineteenth century / Nancy Glazener.
Author Glazener, Nancy, author.
ISBN 9780199390151 (electronic book)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199390137
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 328 pages).
Item Number 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199390137 doi
Call Number PS201 .G56 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9003
Summary 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.
Note 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 9, 2015).
Series Oxford studies in American literary history.
Available in Other Form Literature in the making.
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Introduction: literary history as the history of "literature"
Organizing literature. Looking for literature in the eighteenth century ; The problem with poetry ; Phillis Wheatley and the transformation of poetry ; The genres of literature ; The two canons
Literature, civil society, and the state. Print, aesthetic autonomy, and the history of censorship ; Literature in the marketplace
Studying literature. Shakespeare, modern and antimodern ; Where Shakespeare was studied ; How literature was studied ; Taste, belles lettres, and the sublime ; Coleridge, Emerson, and the legacies of moral philosophy
Lost episodes from public literary culture. The St. Louis movement and the Concord School ; Dueling bards ; The Browning Society in the United States ; A Library of American literature
Literary species and academic toolkits ; Clash of the titans: novels versus poetry ; Crafting conflicts
Disciplinarity and beyond. Literature as disciplinary ; Literature as interdisciplinary ; Literature as antidisciplinary ; Coda.

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