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Revolution and the Word - The Rise of the Novel in America (Paperback, Expanded Edition)
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Revolution and the Word - The Rise of the Novel in America (Paperback, Expanded Edition)
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Revolution and the Word is the classic study of the co-emergence of
the U.S. nation and the new literary genre of the novel. The book
remains the foundational study of reading, writing, and publishing
in the new republic and provides a unique glimpse of the culture of
early America. By looking at everything from publishers' account
books to marginalia scrawled in eighteenth-century books to the
novels themselves, Revolution and the Word provides an engaging
social history of early American readership that is also informed
by the most insightful aspects of literary theory.
With a backward glance at the culture wars and prognostications for
what lies ahead, the comprehensive introduction of this expanded
edition reframes Revolution and the Word for a new generation of
scholars. It revisits topics of dissent in the early national
period, the status of the Constitution as a document designed to
quell the still-burning passions of the American Revolution, and
the role played by the novel in publicizing and articulating
complex desires not addressed at the Constitutional Convention.
Cathy N. Davidson provides readers with a survey and critique of
the controversial and productive thought in cultural, social, and
political theory as it has evolved during the last twenty years.
This astute and learned assessment of recent developments in
literary and historical scholarship, colonial and postcolonial
studies, race theory, gender and sexuality theory, class studies,
cultural studies, and history of the book will make Revolution and
the Word as urgent for this generation as it was for its original
readers in 1986.
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