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Languages : en
Pages : 448
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The Saturday Magazine: Being in Great Part a Compilation from the British Reviews, Magazines, and Scientific Journals
Author: Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Discerning Characters
Author: Christopher J. LukasikPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In this path-breaking study of the intersections between visual and literary culture, Christopher J. Lukasik explores how early Americans grappled with the relationship between appearance and social distinction in the decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Through a wide range of evidence, including canonical and obscure novels, newspapers, periodicals, scientific and medical treatises, and plays as well as conduct manuals, portraits, silhouettes, and engravings, Discerning Characters charts the transition from the eighteenth century's emphasis on performance and manners to the search for a more reliable form of corporeal legibility in the wake of the Revolution. The emergence of physiognomy, which sought to understand a person's character based on apparently unchanging facial features, facilitated a larger shift in perception about the meanings of physical appearance and its relationship to social distinction. The ensuing struggle between the face as a pliable medium of cultural performance and as rigid evidence of social standing, Lukasik argues, was at the center of the post-Revolutionary novel, which imagined physiognomic distinction as providing stability during a time of cultural division and political turmoil. As Lukasik shows, this tension between a model of character grounded in the fluid performances of the self and one grounded in the permanent features of the face would continue to shape not only the representation of social distinction within the novel but, more broadly, the practices of literary production and reception in nineteenth-century America across a wide range of media. The result is a new interdisciplinary interpretation of the rise of the novel in America that reconsiders the political and social aims of the genre during the fifty years following the Revolution. In so doing, Discerning Characters powerfully rethinks how we have read—and continue to read—both novels and each other.
A History of American Magazines: 1741-1850
Author: Frank Luther MottPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674395503
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
"The five volumes of A History of American Magazines constitute a unique cultural history of America, viewed through the pages and pictures of her periodicals from the publication of the first monthly magazine in 1741 through the golden age of magazines in the twentieth century"--Page 4 of cover.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Serial Publications in the University of Iowa Libraries
Author: University of Iowa. LibrariesPublisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1406
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ACLCP Union List of Periodicals
Author: Associated College Libraries of Central PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Libraries in American Periodicals Before 1876
Author: Larry J. BarrPublisher: McFarland
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
American Periodicals, 1800-1850
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Union List of Serials
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1228
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