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Novels, Readers, and Reviewers : Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America / Nina Baym.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1987Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501726187
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.3/09
LOC classification:
  • PS377
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2 . The Triumph Of The Novel -- 3 . Novel Readers And Novel Reading -- 4. Plot, The Formal Principle -- 5 . Character -- 6. Aspects Of Narration -- 7 . Aspects Of The Narrator -- 8 . The Novel As A Picture Of Nature -- 9. Morality And Moral Tendency -- 10.Classes Of Novels -- 11.Romances, Historical Novels, National Novels -- 12.Authors -- 13.Conclusion -- Bibliographical Note -- Index
Summary: 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 proliferated. Nina Baym makes uses of the reviews to gain information about the formal, aesthetic, and moral expectations of reviewers. Her major conclusion is that the accepted view about the American novel before the Civil War-the view that the atmosphere in America was hostile to fiction-is a myth. There is compelling evidence, she shows, for the existence of a veritable novel industry and, concomitantly, a vast audience for fiction in the 1840s and 1850s.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2 . The Triumph Of The Novel -- 3 . Novel Readers And Novel Reading -- 4. Plot, The Formal Principle -- 5 . Character -- 6. Aspects Of Narration -- 7 . Aspects Of The Narrator -- 8 . The Novel As A Picture Of Nature -- 9. Morality And Moral Tendency -- 10.Classes Of Novels -- 11.Romances, Historical Novels, National Novels -- 12.Authors -- 13.Conclusion -- Bibliographical Note -- Index

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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 proliferated. Nina Baym makes uses of the reviews to gain information about the formal, aesthetic, and moral expectations of reviewers. Her major conclusion is that the accepted view about the American novel before the Civil War-the view that the atmosphere in America was hostile to fiction-is a myth. There is compelling evidence, she shows, for the existence of a veritable novel industry and, concomitantly, a vast audience for fiction in the 1840s and 1850s.

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