Reading books : essays on the material text and literature in America / edited by Michele Moylan and Lane Stiles ; foreword by Michael Winship.

Other author Moylan, Michele, 1963-
Other author Stiles, Lane, 1952-
Format Book
Publication InfoAmherst, Ma : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1996.
Descriptionx, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
American literature--Criticism, Textual.
Literature publishing--United States. --History.
Books--United States. --Format. --History. --19th century.
Books--United States. --Format. --History. --20th century.
Books and reading--United States. --History. --19th century.
Books and reading--United States. --History. --20th century.
Transmission of texts.
Literary form.

SeriesStudies in print culture and the history of the book
Studies in print culture and the history of the book. ^A388034
Contents Dante in America: the first hundred years / Kathleen Verduin -- The material Melville: shaping readers' horizons / Michael Kearns -- Judging literary books by their covers: house styles, Ticknor and Fields, and literary promotion / Jeffrey D. Groves -- Literature in newsprint: antebellum family newspapers and the uses of reading / Amy M. Thomas -- Manufacturing intellectual equipment: the Tauchnitz edition of The Marble faun / Susan S. Williams -- Finding his mark: Twain's The Innocents abroad as a subscription book / Nancy Cook -- Defining the national pantheon: the making of Houghton Mifflin's Biographical series, 1880-1900 / Scott E. Casper -- Materiality as performance: the forming of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona / Michele Moylan -- Packaging literature for the high schools: from Riverside literature series to Literature and life / Lane Stiles.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 96008322
ISBN1558490620 (alk. paper)
ISBN1558490639 (pbk. : alk. paper)