The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Paperback)

The true scale of paper Production in America from 1690 through the end of the nineteenth century was staggering, with a range of parties participating in different ways, from farmers growing flax to textile workers weaving cloth and from housewives saving rags to peddlers collecting them. Making a bold case for the importance of printing and paper technology in the study of early American literature, Jonathan Senchyne presents archival evidence of the effects of this very visible process on American writers, such as Anne Bradstreet, Herman Melville, Lydia Sigourney, William Wells Brown, and other lesser-known figures. The Intimacy of Paper in Early and Nineteenth-Century American Literature reveals that book history and literary studies are mutually constitutive and proposes a new literary periodization based on materiality and paper Production. In unpacking this history and connecting it to cultural and literary representations, Senchyne also explores how the textuality of paper has been used to make social and political claims about gender, labor, and race.

General

Imprint:	University of Massachusetts Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book
Release date:	December 2019
Authors:	Jonathan Senchyne
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-1-62534-474-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-62534-474-0
Barcode:	9781625344748

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