Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 187-192

by Nancy Bentley

Book Overview

Late nineteenth-century America saw an explosion in mass culture--from sensationalist tabloid newspapers to amusement parks to Wild West shows. Historians and critics have traditionally observed the advent of mass culture as undermining literature's central role in the public sphere. Literary writers of the time either reacted with a public show of disdain or retreated to conduct their own private experiments in style and form. In Frantic Panoramas,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812241746
• ISBN13: 9780812241747
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"