Popular American Literature of the 19th Century

by Paul C. Gutjahr

Book Overview

This unique collection captures some of the excitement and diversity of the immensely prolific print culture that formed and framed nineteenth-century American life and thought. Gathering popular stories that tap into a variety of nineteenth-century American self-perceptions, fears, dreams, and longings, this resurrectionist work makes available material that is not readily available today but which was vital to the culture and daily conversations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195141407
• ISBN13: 9780195141405
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 1248 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"