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The Rise of New Media 1750-1850: Transatlantic Discourse and American Memory
Julia Straub
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Description for The Rise of New Media 1750-1850: Transatlantic Discourse and American Memory
Hardback. Series: The New Urban Atlantic. Num Pages: 250 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DS; HBAH; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This monograph explores transatlantic literary culture by tracing the proliferation of `new media,' such as the anthology, the literary history and the magazine, in the period between 1750 and 1850. The fast-paced media landscape out of which these publishing genres developed produced the need of a `memory of literature' and a concomitant rhetoric of remembering strikingly similar to what today is called a cultural memory debate. Thus, rather than depicting the emergence of an American national literature, The Rise of New Media(1750-1850) combines impulses from media history, the history of print, the ... Read more
This monograph explores transatlantic literary culture by tracing the proliferation of `new media,' such as the anthology, the literary history and the magazine, in the period between 1750 and 1850. The fast-paced media landscape out of which these publishing genres developed produced the need of a `memory of literature' and a concomitant rhetoric of remembering strikingly similar to what today is called a cultural memory debate. Thus, rather than depicting the emergence of an American national literature, The Rise of New Media(1750-1850) combines impulses from media history, the history of print, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
The New Urban Atlantic
Number of Pages
193
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137589798
SKU
V9781137589798
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99-15
About Julia Straub
Julia Straub is Senior Lecturer at the English Department of the University Berne, Switzerland. She is the editor of the Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies and author of A Victorian Muse: The Afterlife of Dante's Beatrice in Nineteenth-Century Literature.
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